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Configure the CA Personal Firewall



There are three ways to configure the CA Personall Firewall. There's the quick method, expert rule method, and the program specific expert rule method. With the quick method, you just allow whatever ports the program needs. The expert rule method is slightly more secure, because you only allow certain ports in to or out of your computer. The program specific expert rule is the most secure. It only allows certain ports in or out of your computer, and then only allows those ports to communicate with specific applications. If you have any concerns about security, the program specific expert rule method is the one you should use.

Configure the CA Personal Firewall using the Program Specific Expert Rule Methods

Think of this as a port forward for your firewall. By enabling an incoming port, you allow people on the outside to get inside your network. Possible reasons for this are to run Peer to Peer networks, host game servers, and to run internet servers behind your firewall. Use this option with caution as it opens your network up to outsiders. This rule is specific to a single program.

Program Specific Expert Rule Incoming

Think of this option as controlling the software that is installed on your PC. Many programs need to communicate with the Internet, and they do this through outgoing ports. If you are surfing the web, then you are talking on an outgoing port. You need to open an outgoing port for any application that you want to enable to talk on the Internet. You may, however, have a program that you do not want to allow to talk on the Internet. In this case, you can firewall it by simply not opening up its outgoing ports. This option is much safer than incoming ports because it does not open your computer up from the inside.This rule is specific to a single program.

Program Specific Expert Rule Outgoing

Configure the CA Personal Firewall using the Expert Rule Methods

Think of this as a port forward for your firewall. By enabling an incoming port, you allow people on the outside to get inside your network. Possible reasons for this are to run Peer to Peer networks, host game servers, and to run internet servers behind your firewall. Use this option with caution as it opens your network up to outsiders.

Expert Rule Incoming

Think of this option as controlling the software that is installed on your PC. Many programs need to communicate with the Internet, and they do this through outgoing ports. If you are surfing the web, then you are talking on an outgoing port. You need to open an outgoing port for any application that you want to enable to talk on the Internet. You may, however, have a program that you do not want to allow to talk on the Internet. In this case, you can firewall it by simply not opening up its outgoing ports. This option is much safer than incoming ports because it does not open your computer up from the inside.

Expert Rule Outgoing

Configure the CA Personal Firewall using the Quick Method

Please keep in mind that when this method is used, you don't know what ports you are opening.

Easy Method