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3.7. The firewall: your ultimate protection against Internet
attacks
Like a secure fortress, your network is protected by a drawbridge and ramparts that are impossible to scale.
On top of this, all of your defenses are in a state of alert to repel any intrusion attempts. It is possible,
however, to lower these defenses from time to time, in order to authorize your computers to access specific
Internet services (P2P, web/FTP servers, IP or WiFi camera...), to simply limit access on a specific computer
to certain Internet services, or to redirect all Internet requests to a designated computer. For more
information, please refer to chapters 5.2.1. Opening doors in your firewall to put your camera online or
authorize access for a computer to certain Internet services, 5.2.2. Limiting access of one of your
network computers to Internet services and 5.2.3. Redirecting Internet requests to a specific computer.
If your computer is equipped with a software firewall (Norton Personal Firewall, Windows Service
Pack 2 Firewall, McAfee Personal Firewall...), disable it when you connect to the router, as your router's
firewall is sufficiently strong on its own, or adopt the same configuration settings as those established for
your router in order to avoid any possible conflicts. If you go somewhere else with your computer, however,
and have to connect to other networks, you can re-enable your software firewall.
Be careful not to confuse a firewall with an antivirus program!
An antivirus program analyzes the contents of your computer, your emails, files you have downloaded from
the Internet, etc., and detects, blocks and/or removes any viruses, worms and Trojans in order to ensure that
your computer functions properly.
Your firewall hides your computer on the network, monitors the Internet data arriving at your computer and
blocks intrusion attempts to stop computer hackers from stealing your personal information.
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- In the WiFi settings page, select the Enable WiFi
network box.
- Confirm that you wish to re-enable your WiFi
network.
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