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Setting up Outpost Firewall

3 Setting up Outpost Firewall

3.1 Basic Information

A firewall for your computer is like the lock on a door of your home. In most cities, we

usually lock the front door of our homes when we leave. This is not because the majority of

people are criminals or because we cannot trust our neighbors to mind their own business.

We generally lock our doors to prevent criminal types from snooping, stealing or doing

damage.

The Internet is similar. Most web sites are unobtrusive and benign. Only a small percentage

holds any threat to our privacy. However, because there are such a huge number of Internet

users, even a small percentage of them with an impulse to vandalize adds up to a very

significant number of people. For this reason, leaving your computer unprotected is just not

prudent.

Outpost Firewall is engineered to detect a suspicious connection. It is recommended that

you keep the firewall in Rules Wizard mode for several days use. Rules Wizard is the

easiest for you to use if you are unfamiliar with how firewalls work.

NOTE: If you have any doubt or confusion about changing any default setting, it is

recommended that you DO NOT MAKE THE CHANGE. Even if you do understand

the change, it is advisable to save or record the setting before changing it.

When Outpost alerts you of a suspicious connection request from an application on your

computer or from the Internet, it gives you some information about the request, such as the

DNS or IP address of the remote computer, the application making the request and other

data to help you decide if you want to allow the connection or not. If in doubt, simply

disallow the connection this one time. See what happens. If you are prevented from doing

something you wanted to do, then just try doing it again and this time allow the connection

when prompted. In this way, you can learn what your applications are doing and which

ones you need to be careful of or even uninstall completely from your system. It will also

alert you to the presence of a Trojan horse.

Note: A good rule of thumb when using Outpost is to keep the settings Outpost suggests

if you do not have a particular reason and the knowledge to change them.

In Outpost Firewall an access setting is basically a rule that you set regarding how much

of your information you want to let other computers access or how much information you

want to allow other computers to send to yours.

Outpost Firewall uses various security settings to keep your computer protected from

unwanted access from other computers on the Internet or any type of network connection.

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