 What
is Max Secure Firewall?
Max Secure Firewall provides a robust way to effectively filter
network traffic, prevent malicious behavior,
protect running processes and filter web
content. It provides filtering of I/O requests
at the kernel and user levels. Max Secure
Firewall is one of the best defenses against
malicious software attacks on your system.
You can enable firewall by
using "Options > System Settings
> Advanced Settings > Firewall >
Enable Firewall" check box.
Network Filter
The firewall keeps track
of all communications that have originated
from your computer, and it prevents unsolicited
traffic from reaching your computer. The
two-way firewall monitors your computer’s
inbound and outbound connections and prevents
local and remote unauthorized network access.
You can specify if you wish to block communication
from a range of network addresses or protocols.
A set of rules are provided for specific
well-known protocols. This is provided for
convenience so that user don’t have
to have deep protocol knowledge to configure
them.
Application Rules
This is a set of rules that manage how certain
applications will access the network. These
rules are based only on the application
path; they don’t configure any port/protocol.
They can allow all communications coming
to/going from the application. You can add
any application by clicking on Add button
and specify rule such as allow or block.
Blocked application will not be allowed
to be executed on this PC.
Network Monitor
1. Many Spyware establish network connections with their remote servers to send information or download more programs.
2. Network Monitor continuously scans Network Activities. It closes suspicious Network connections and terminates the process
responsible for establishing such connections.
3. This is the list of spyware IP addresses and Host Names. Network monitor will monitor these IP addresses and Host Names.
4. User has facility to add/delete his own IP addresses/Host Names from the list; by clicking on Insert/ Delete button respectively.
Note: This option is only for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later version.
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