Improved security in Windows 7 - #3 - Improved firewall in Windows 7

Hi, this is Michael Callahan, Dr. File Finder and welcome to our special Butterscotch five-part series on improve security in Windows 7. In this segment we’re going to take a quick look at the Windows Firewall.

We click on start, control panel, system and security and then here's the Windows Firewall. In the firewall if its name from wall that’s in many building because designed to hold back a fire and stop it from burning from one side into another. The firewall on your computer has a similar function. It prevents names from coming in that you don’t want to come in and it allows things that you want to go out to go out.

So it shows here the window firewall state is on, it’s blocking connections of programs that are not on the allowed programs list. Notify me when the windows firewall blocks a new program. Now you can change the notifications settings. If you want you can have it block all incoming connections and really knows in most of a lot of programs because you really much done that, right.

You don’t ant to turn Windows Firewall off leave it on and the public network and location you can also block all incoming connections. Again, you don’t what to turn the firewall off. Click okay and go to advance settings where you have inbound rules and outbound rules, connection security rules and monitoring. Now these things you can cover in more def in the future tutorial but the ideal is that if you want you can have extremely tight control over can go in, what can go out, what can connect and so on. This is Windows firewall it’s been improve yet again in Windows 7.

Keep remind this is a multiple parts series and be sure to watch all of the parts.


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