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Avira Professional Security - User Manual (Status: 14 Dec. 2012) 137
11.5.2 Application rules
Application rules for user
This list contains all users in the system. If you are logged in as an administrator, you
can select the user to whom you want to apply the rules. If you are not a privileged
user, you can see only the user currently logged on.
Application
This table shows the list of applications for which rules are defined. The application list
contains the settings of each application that was executed and had a rule saved since
the Avira FireWall was installed.
Normal view
Column
Description
Application
Name of the application.
Active
Connections
Number of active connections opened by the application.
Action
Shows the action that the Avira FireWall will automatically take when the
application is using the network, whatever the network usage type is. With
a mouse click on the link you can switch to another action type. The action
types are Ask, Allow or Deny. Ask is the default action.
Advanced configuration
If the network accesses of an application require individual rules, you can create the
application rules based on packet filters in the same way as you created the adapter rules.
To change to the advanced configuration of the application rules, first activate the
Expert mode option in the Configuration window.
Then go to Configuration > Internet Protection > FireWall > Settings and enable
the Advanced settings option under Application rules.
Save the setting by clicking Apply or OK.
Under Configuration > Internet Protection > FireWall > Application rules
section, an additional column with the heading Filtering is displayed in the list of
application rules, with the entry Basic for each application.