Operation Manual

An Orientation
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the detailed statistics to make certain that Outpost Firewall is correctly configured and
functioning properly.
The Outpost Firewall setup package that you downloaded from Agnitum web site contains
some additional plug-ins. Plug-ins are independent from the primary Outpost Firewall
engine and you may install or uninstall any or all of them. You can even get third-party
plug-ins from other developers and web sites. The second part of the listing of the left
panel shows the plug-ins that are installed.
Each plug-in has its own icon in the left panel and the log of its activity is displayed in the
information panel. When Outpost Firewall is first installed the Plug-Ins list contains the
following modules:
• Ads—displays the events log of all the ads that were blocked.
• Content—displays the events log of all the web sites or pages that were blocked
by this plug-in and the reason why.
• DNS Cache—displays the events log of the web addresses cached by Outpost
Firewall to speed up your Internet connection to those sites.
• Active Content—displays the events log of the sites that had some of its active
content blocked based on the settings for Java applets, VBScript, ActiveX, and
other active content elements.
• Attachment Quarantine—shows the events log of all the e-mail file attachments
that were neutralized and quarantined from your computer.
• Attack Detection—shows the events log of any suspected attacks on your
computer from the Internet, the ports involved and where the attacks are from.
• Anti-Spyware—shows the events log of spyware objects detected in your
system.
As with Windows Explorer, any line that starts with a plus sign (+) can be expanded to
show each of its subcomponents. In the picture above, the Network Activity line can be
expanded by clicking on the plus sign at the start of that line.
Any line starting with a minus sign (-) shows that the line has already been expanded. By
clicking on the minus sign, all of its subcomponents can be hidden so only the type of
component is displayed to conserve screen space.