Network Hardware User Manual

122 Barracuda NG Personal Firewall

9.9.2 Automatic Rule Configuration

If Ask for unknown outgoing/incoming connections has been activated in the Firewall Settings view

(9.9 Administration - Firewall Settings Wizard, page 120), an unknown application/service requesting

network connection will trigger a

Security Alert pop-up window requesting authorisation.

The following information is included in the Security Alert window:

• Select the

Remember this answer checkbox (default: selected) to allow or deny a

connection request permanently. Selecting the checkbox automatically

creates a corresponding rule in the

Configuration area of the Barracuda NG

Personal Firewall, including required

Network, Service, Application and User

Objects

(9.8 Configuration, page 103). If cleared, the connection request is

granted temporarily for this one specific connection request only.

Fig. 9–28 Security Alert windows

Windows Vista: If you don’t have access to the dialog (figure 9–28), then please contact your system administrator.

Table 9–12

Connection request details summarized in the Security Alert window

Column Description

Date/Time Time of the connection request.

Local

Server/Program

Application requesting the connection.

Path Complete path to the application requesting the connection.

User User responsible for the connection request.

Source/Destination Connection source and target destination/port.

Service Service requesting the connection.

Message Counter

Number of security alerts that are to be considered. Click the

arrows to scroll through the alert windows.

More Info Click this link to open the Barracuda NG Firewall online help file.

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