Menu

Menu choices

File

• Close—Closes the Personal Firewall main console.

• Exit Personal Firewall—Disables the Personal Firewall, effectively turning off security on your machine.

Security

• Block All—Blocks all network traffic on your machine.

• Normal—Blocks only selective traffic. This is the default configuration, and is a prudent choice.

• Allow All—Permits all network traffic to flow on your machine. This is almost as non-secure as exiting the Personal Firewall, and is not recommended. It should be used for troubleshooting only.

Tools

• Applications—Opens the Applications List.

• Logs—Opens the Logs.

• Options—Opens the Options dialog box, which contains many security options, including email alerts, Network Neighborhood browsing rights, and log file configuration.

• Advanced Rules—Opens the Advanced Rules dialog box, where you can set very specific rules for the implementation of security on your Personal Firewall.

• Update Signature—Updates intrusion prevention signatures.
  Option Alert: This option may appear dimmed or not at all. For further information, see "Some Options May Not Show."

• Automatically Start Service—This toggle setting sets whether the Personal Firewall will be launched automatically when your machine is booted.
  Option Alert: This option may appear dimmed or not at all. For further information, see "Some Options May Not Show."

• Hide System Tray Icon—This toggle setting hides the System Tray Icon from view. If it is checked, the icon is hidden.

• Test Your Firewall—Opens the Sygate Technologies scan site, allowing you to test the effectiveness of the Personal Firewall.

View

The View menu gives users the option to alter the display of software programs in the Running Applications field:

• Large Icons—Displays 32x32 icons in the field. Each icon represents a software application or a system service.

• Small Icons—Displays 16x16 icons.

Both the large and small icon displays provide the full name of the application below the icon itself, and the icons are displayed in a “corkboard” fashion.

• List—Provides small icon representations, with the icons displayed in a standard list.

• Applications Details—Provides not only a list of all running applications, but also useful information on the version number and location path of each application.

• Connection Details—Provides further information on the type of connection being made by an each application accessing the network adapter, as well as the protocol, local and remote ports and IP addresses being used, the application path, and more.

• Hide Windows Services—Toggles the display of Windows Services in the "Running Applications" field.

• Hide Broadcast Traffic—Toggles the display of broadcast traffic in the "Running Applications" field.

Help

• Managed Personal Firewall—Links to the Sygate Technologies Web site to show the corporate version of the Firewall, Sygate Security Agent.

• Easy Internet Sharing—Links to the Sygate Technologies Web site to show Sygate's Home Networking product line

• Upgrade to Sygate Personal Firewall Pro—Links to the Sygate Technologies Web site, where you can download the upgrade to the more powerful version of Sygate Personal Firewall

• Register...—Brings up a registration screen so that you can register your copy of the Firewall

• Help Topics...—Opens the Personal Firewall online help files.

• About—Opens the About screen.