Features
Common personal firewall features:
- Protects the user from unwanted incoming connection attempts
- Alert the user about outgoing connection attempts
- Allows the user to control which programs can and cannot access the local network and/or Internet
- Hide the computer from port scans by not responding to unsolicited network traffic
- Monitor applications that are listening for incoming connections
- Monitor and regulate all incoming and outgoing Internet users
- Prevent unwanted network traffic from locally installed applications
- Provide the user with information about an application that makes a connection attempt
- Provide information about the destination server with which an application is attempting to communicate
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