Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2003, User Manual

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Guarding against intrusion attempts
Customize Intrusion Detection
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safe behavior, you can create an exclusion for the attack signature that
matches the benign activity.
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Each exclusion that you create leaves your computer vulnerable to attacks.
Be very selective when excluding attacks. Only exclude behavior that is
always benign.
To exclude attack signatures from being monitored
1
Open Norton Personal Firewall.
2
In the Security Center, double-click Intrusion Detection .
3
In the Intrusion Detection window, click Signatures .
4 In the Signatures list, select the attack signature that you want to
exclude.
5 Click Exclude .
6
When you are done excluding signatures, click OK .
If you have excluded attack signatures that you want to monitor again, you
can include them in the list of active signatures.
To include attack signatures
1
Open Norton Personal Firewall.
2
In the Security Center, double-click Intrusion Detection .
3
In the Intrusion Detection window, click
Signatures
.