Firewall Rules - F-SECURE ANTI-VIRUS LINUX SERVER SECURITY Administrator's Manual

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Firewall Rules

Each security profile has a set of pre-configured Firewall Rules.
Profile to edit
List of rules The list of rules displays the currently used
Select the firewall profile you want to edit. For
more information, see "Security
The current security profile is displayed on the
top of the Firewall Rules page. You can change
the current security profile from the Summary
page. For more information, see "Summary", 35.
ruleset.
Clear the Enabled checkbox to disable the rule
temporarily.
Use up and down arrows to change the order of
rules in the ruleset. The order of the rules is
important. The rules are read from top to bottom,
and the first rule that applies to a connection
attempt is enforced.
For example: You have a rule that allows an IRC
(Internet Relay Chat) connections to a specific
host above a rule that denies all IRC traffic. You
are still allowed to make the connection to that
one host. However, if the rule that denies all IRC
traffic comes first, any other IRC rules below that
rule are ignored and no IRC connections can be
made.
Click X to delete the rule permanently.
To edit a rule, select it from the list of rules. The
selected rule is displayed in the Edit Rule pane.
The Edit Rule pane appears below the list of
rules.
Profiles", 52.