Book description
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Personal Firewalls is designed to provide simplified, yet thorough firewall information on the most prevalent personal firewall software applications available for the non expert firewall consumer. In addition, it offers information and links to Web sites that will help you test your security after your personal firewall is installed.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Introduction
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I. Introducing Personal Firewalls
- 1. Why Do You Need a Personal Firewall?
- 2. High-Speed Internet Connections Equal Increased Vulnerability
- 3. Firewalls Explained
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II. Tightening Your Security
- 4. Locking Down Windows Networking
- 5. Hardware Firewalls
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6. McAfee Personal Firewall
- Overview of McAfee
- System Requirements
- Installation and Setup
- Working with the Configuration Wizard
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Normal Operation
- Saving Configuration Changes
- Securing Configuration Changes
- Managing the McAfee Personal Firewall’s Log File
- Starting the Firewall at System Boot
- Closing the McAfee Personal Firewall
- Configuring Application Settings
- System Settings
- Fragmented Packets
- Minimize to SysTray
- Start in SysTray
- Help
- Block Everything
- Filter Traffic
- Allow Everything
- Reporting Summary Application Information
- Reporting Detailed Application Information
- Working with Report Logs
- Limitations
- Testing the McAfee Personal Firewall
- 7. BlackICE Defender
- 8. ZoneAlarm
- 9. How Secure Is Your Computer?
- 10. Habits of Security-Conscious Surfers
- 11. Home Networks and Internet Connection Sharing
- A. Other Firewall Products
- B. Other Web Sites That Will Test Your Security
- Glossary
Product information
- Title: Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Personal Firewalls
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2001
- Publisher(s): Que
- ISBN: None
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