System information

Comodo Endpoint Security Manager - SME - Administrator Guide

• Very High: The firewall shows separate alerts for outgoing and incoming connection requests for both TCP and UDP

protocols on specific ports and for specific IP addresses, for an application. This setting provides the highest degree of

visibility to inbound and outbound connection attempts but leads to a proliferation of firewall alerts. For example, using

a browser to connect to your Internet home-page may generate as many as 5 separate alerts for an outgoing TCP

connection alone.

• High: The firewall shows separate alerts for outgoing and incoming connection requests for both TCP and UDP

protocols on specific ports for an application.

• Medium: The firewall shows alerts for outgoing and incoming connection requests for both TCP and UDP protocols for

an application.

• Low: The firewall shows alerts for outgoing and incoming connection requests for an application. This is the setting

recommended by Comodo and is suitable for the majority of users.

• Very Low: The firewall shows only one alert for an application.

Check box options

This computer is an internet connection gateway (i.e. an ICS server) - An Internet Connection Sharing Server (ICS) is a

computer that shares its connection to the Internet with other computers that are connected to it by LAN. i.e. the other

computers access the Internet through this computer.

Designating a computer as an ICS server can be useful in some corporate and home environments that have more than one

computer but which have only one connection to the Internet. For example, you might have two computers in your home but only

one connection. Setting one as an ICS server allows both of them to access the Internet.

• Leave this box unchecked if no other computers connect to your computer via Local Area Network to share your

connection. This is the situation for the vast majority of home and business users.

• Check this option if this computer has been configured as an Internet Connection Sharing server through which

other computers connect to the Internet.

Note: If your computer is indeed an ICS server but you leave this box unchecked then you are likely to see an increase in

Firewall alerts. Selecting this checkbox does not decrease the security but tells the firewall to handle ICS requests too. So it

just activates some additional functionality and helps reduce the number of alerts.

Enable alerts for TCP requests / Enable alerts for UDP requests / Enable alerts for ICMP requests/ Enable alerts for