Reports For Firewall Protection; Unrecognized Programs Report; Inbound Events Blocked By Firewall Report - McAfee TSA00M005PAA - Total Protection Service Product Manual

Using Firewall Protection

Reports for firewall protection

Reports for firewall protection
You can view information about firewall detections in administrative reports available from the
SecurityCenter. Reports provide details about the specific threats detected over the past year.
• Unrecognized Programs — Lists programs detected on client computers that are not
recognized by virus and spyware protection and firewall protection. Allows you to approve
Internet applications from within the report.
• Inbound Events Blocked by Firewall — Lists the incoming communication attempts that
firewall protection prevented client computers from receiving, where they originated, and
to which computer they were sent.

Unrecognized Programs report

Use the Unrecognized Programs report to view a list of unapproved Internet applications that
firewall protection detected on your network. This list is cumulative — previously detected
programs remain in the list, and new detections are added each time you access the report.
Select the information that appears in this report
Select this option...
Select this option...
Report period
Report period
Detection type
Detection type
View
View
Groups
Groups
How to use this report
When you want to...
When you want to...
Display computers or detections
Display computers or detections
View details about a computer
View details about a computer
where a detection occurred
where a detection occurred
Allow an Internet application
Allow an Internet application

Inbound Events Blocked by Firewall report

Use the Inbound Events Blocked by Firewall report to view a list of communications that
firewall protection prevented from reaching client computers. For the purposes of this report,
each attempt to communicate is called an event .
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To do this...
To do this...
Specify the period of time for which to display information. Select from the last week
Specify the period of time for which to display information. Select from the last week
or one of the last 12 months.
or one of the last 12 months.
Show all unrecognized programs, only programs blocked by firewall protection, only
Show all unrecognized programs, only programs blocked by firewall protection, only
potentially unwanted programs, or only cookies.
potentially unwanted programs, or only cookies.
List the computers where unrecognized programs were detected, the name of the
List the computers where unrecognized programs were detected, the name of the
programs, or the groups containing computers where unrecognized programs were
programs, or the groups containing computers where unrecognized programs were
detected.
detected.
Display all the computers on your account or only the computers in a single group.
Display all the computers on your account or only the computers in a single group.
Do this...
Do this...
Click the triangle icon next to a name.
Click the triangle icon next to a name.
• Under a computer name, show which applications were detected.
• Under a computer name, show which applications were detected.
• Under an application name, show the computers where it was detected.
• Under an application name, show the computers where it was detected.
Click a group name to display computers in that group.
Click a group name to display computers in that group.
Click a computer name to display the Computer Details page, which displays
Click a computer name to display the Computer Details page, which displays
information about the computer, its service components, and its detections.
information about the computer, its service components, and its detections.
Click Allow, select one or more applications, select one or more policies where
Click Allow, select one or more applications, select one or more policies where
this application will be approved, then click Save. The selected applications will
this application will be approved, then click Save. The selected applications will
no longer be detected as a threat by firewall protection on computers using the
no longer be detected as a threat by firewall protection on computers using the
selected policies.
selected policies.
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