Norman Personal Firewall - Features

Some of the features in Norman personal Firewall include the following:

Connection security

The Norman Personal Firewall will monitor every application that attempts a connection to the Internet/network closely. Each application will be automatically assigned its own "guard" for monitoring. Applications that do not use the Internet/network are free from any kind of monitoring. No longer will you connect to the Internet/network and have to worry that some applications in your system will send out information without your knowledge. Trojans that seek to control your system from an incoming connection will be detected, as well as scripts that attempt to send emails using your name.

You can control which peers who can view and access your shared folders and even prevent others from detecting your computer's presence on the network.

Collection of Behavioral pattern

While you surf the web sites on Internet, snippets of information are being sent out between your browser and the web sites you visit. These "cookies" are useful for the sites to differentiate between surfers, but could also be collected and used to provide information about your surfing habits.

Surfing information such as "referrer" (the web page you came from) can also be blocked.

Active Content Nuisance

Active-Xs, Java-/VB-Scripts and Java Applets are supposed to enrich the Internet experience for users. However, malicious versions of such can cause serious security breaches.

NPF gives you total control over which sites that can activate such behaviour on your PC, and which sites that should be stopped.

With NPF installed, these threats are history.

Parental Control Web browsing

This feature gives the "parents" a possibility to set up user accounts with different access rights to web sites.

The banned sites are blocked by

• URL address
• words in the URL address
• content on sites (words in the banned word list matching words found on sites).

Parents can edit this banned word list. They can e.g. enter words containing things they do not want a child to see.

Additional features include

• Time Control and Account Manager
• Check summing of all executables (applications) that are stored in the rules database (except for the system itself).
• Logging of URLs/processes/ports.
• NetBios support for Win 9x/Me (support for NT/2000 planned first quarter 2002)
• The ability to block sites by URLs.
• The ability to control packets of data, inbound and outbound on a per application and per site basis.
• The ability to block referring addresses.
• General IP blocking based on rules for processes, services and IP-addresses.
• Full support for TCP/IP and standard modem dialup connections
• Disabling file browsing in LANs, based on rules.
• The ability to block applications attempting to access the Internet
• Content Blocking based on site rules
• Cookies Manager based on site rules.
• Banner Advertisements
• The Norman Personal Firewall Wizard
• Rule editor feature

System Requirements

Any Pentium class PC running Windows 95/98/Me or Windows NT/2000.