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38 z Norman Security Suite - User’s Guide

Disable/Enable Personal Firewall

You can disable/enable the Personal Firewall by right-clicking the tray

icon. Select Disable Personal Firewall. This entry changes to Enable

Personal Firewall when the application is disabled.

Note: This option is not available on Windows Vista, where you must

disable and enable the Personal Firewall from the console.

Windows’ Security Center also issues a warning when the firewall is

disabled.

About rules

Rules are necessary to allow “trusted” applications Internet access, like

so many programs rely on these days. The Personal Firewall detected

“trusted” programs installed on your machine that need to be online,

like web browsers and email clients, and established rules for them

when you ran the wizard. However, you may have programs installed

that the firewall didn’t recognize or were acquired after you installed

the firewall. When such a program tries to connect to the net, the

firewall produces a pop-up that informs about the action and let you

decide if you will allow or deny the action: