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respective item whether you want to have
Firewall
information messages displayed
even while a full-screen application is running on your computer (
typically these are
games, but applies to any full-screen applications, e.g. PPT presentations
). Since the
information messages can be somewhat disruptive.
If you tick the
Disable Firewall notifications when playing games
item, in the roll-
down menu then select what action is to be taken in case a new application with no
rules specified yet tries to communicate over the network (
applications that would
normally result in an ask dialog
) all these applications can be either allowed or
blocked.
11.5.2. Defined Networks
The
Defined networks
dialog offers a list of all networks that your computer is
connected to. The following information is provided on every detected network:
·
Networks
- name list of all networks that the computer is connected to
·
Network safety
- by default, all networks are considered unsafe, and only if
you are sure the respective network is safe, you can assign it so (
click the list
item referring to the respective network and select Safe from the context
menu
) - all safe networks will then be included into the group of those that
the application can communicate over with the application rule set to Allow for
safe
·
IP address range
- each network will be detected automatically and specified
in the form of IP addresses range
