Configuring Firewall Protection - McAfee INTERNET SECURITY SUITE 2008 User Manual

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Configuring Firewall protection

Firewall offers a number of methods to manage your security and
to tailor the way you want to respond to security events and
alerts.
After you install Firewall for the first time, your computer's
protection security level is set to Trusting and your programs are
allowed outbound-only Internet access. However, Firewall
provides other levels, ranging from highly restrictive to highly
permissive.
Firewall also offers you the opportunity to receive
recommendations on alerts and Internet access for programs.
In this chapter
Managing Firewall security levels ..............................72
Configuring Smart Recommendations for alerts ......76
Optimizing Firewall security ......................................78
Locking and restoring Firewall...................................81