Firewall, Launching the nvfirewall™ summary – Asus A8N32-SLI User Manual

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5.3.4

Using the NVIDIA

Firewall™

The motherboard supports the NVIDIA

Firewall™ (NVFirewall™) application

that protects your computer from intruders. The NVFirewall™ is classified
as a personal firewall or desktop firewall that works at the device level to
protect your system from malicious computer code by controlling the
connections to and from your computer and alerting you for attempted
intrusions. The following sections describe how to use the NVIDIA

Firewall™.

Launching the NVFirewall™ summary

After you install the NVFirewall™ application from the motherboard support
CD, it is automatically activated with a M e d i u m

M e d i u m

M e d i u m security profile as its

default setting. The setup summary of NVFirewall™ is displayed in the
summary menu.

To launch the NVFirewall™ summary menu:

Click the N V I D I A

N V I D I A

F i r e w a l l ™ i c o n

F i r e w a l l ™ i c o n from

the Windows

taskbar.

N V I D I A

F i r e w a l l ™ i c o n

Double-click the icon to display
the NVFirewall™ Summary
menu.

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This manual is related to the following products:

A8N32-SLI Deluxe