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McAfee Firewall
About McAfee Firewall
McAfee Firewall is a personal firewall that lets you monitor, control and log
your PC's network activity. It protects you from Internet hackers and keeps
your PC private.
McAfee Firewall:
• Stops fileshare and printshare access attempts.
• Shows who is connecting (i.e., if you allow sharing)
• Stops floods and other attack packets from being received by the Operating
System.
• Blocks untrusted applications from communicating over the network.
• Detects hidden programs ("trojans") that can give remote access to your PC
or reveal private information (e.g. online banking information).
• Provides detailed information about which sites you have contacted and
the type of connection that was made
• Blocks all traffic while you are away, and your PC is connected 24 hours a
day.
How McAfee Firewall works
McAfee Firewall is a simple-to-operate security tool for the non-technical
users. It dynamically manages your computing security behind the scenes, so
that you do not even have to understand networking protocols. It is custom
created at the moment it is needed, and only as needed, as you go on to do
something else on your computer.
McAfee Firewall filters traffic at the devices that your system uses - network
cards and modems. This means that it can reject inbound traffic before that
traffic can reach vital functions in your PC and before it can waste valuable
system resources.
It monitors applications that are either trusted or not trusted. When trusted
applications need to access a network, it manages everything in the computer
to allow that application's traffic. When it detects non-trusted applications
trying to access a network, it blocks all traffic to and from that application.