topic Re: Upgrade firewall in Product Suggestions

Upgrade firewall

EzzO — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:01:27 GMT

Create an option in the firewall that shows (live) what programs are on-line at any given time.

Thanks.

Status changed to: Under Consideration

dnadir — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:10:56 GMT

That is an interesting idea. How would you expect this information to be displayed? Would you want to see only those programs that are currently generating traffic, or programs that have connected to the Internet (I assume that this is only interesting for Internet traffic) within a period of time? Dan

Status changed to: Additional Information Requested

athena — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:17:36 GMT

Re: Upgrade firewall

EzzO — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:51:44 GMT

Would you want to see only those programs that are currently generating traffic, or programs that have connected to the Internet

I want to see both of them; then, wich prorgram what port using and how many connections that program has and this information must be easily accessible, for example from user interface in one click or from system tray.

Re: Upgrade firewall

EzzO — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:52:56 GMT

and I would like to see the same feature as in Symantec's Endpoint Protection (see screenshot), and the possibility to end connections/close (kill) applications.

Status changed to: Future Consideration

dnadir — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:53:26 GMT

Re: Upgrade firewall

TomiRed — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:38:07 GMT

Comodo Internet Security has this feature too, very nicely and cleanly inplemented in terms of UI. This would be nice.

Re: Upgrade firewall

dnadir — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:32:24 GMT

OK, great. Thanks for the detail!

Dan

Re: Upgrade firewall

dnadir — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:33:00 GMT

Re: Upgrade firewall

funbeta — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:10:12 GMT

Just incase it will be a new feature it should be called Norton Firewall Insight (Just my own opinion)

Re: Upgrade firewall

dbrisendine — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:37:23 GMT

I would go for TomiRed's suggestion (like COMODO's traffic list; which is similar to the older pre-2009 NIS Network / Firewall logging) as opposed to a graphic one. It is much easier to display numbers on the screen (and update them in real time) than a graphic. With a list format, the user has the ability to see immediately what application is using the lion's share of the bandwidth (and possibly react to that information faster).

Re: Upgrade firewall

Winslow — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:13:23 GMT

I'm on board with this too. Once I used Comodo's (or was it ZoneAlarm's?) implimentation of this, and found a nasty trojan that was broadcasting who-knows-what to some unknown destination. I was able to quickly locate that file and remove it.

This should definitely be a part of any first class firewall.

Status changed to: Community Discussion Required

dnadir — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:13:48 GMT

Re: Upgrade firewall

Black_Angel — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:07:51 GMT

Very good idea. This function is needed.

Re: Upgrade firewall

szczypmen — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:51:32 GMT

Yep, such function is really useful. Take example from Comodo IS UI (before NIS i've used Comodo IS for a while and liked this feature). :)

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Zheka3 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:46:27 GMT

Great idea!

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znmng — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:50:17 GMT

A nice idea. I think this is useful and needed.

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Mitka — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:43:04 GMT

I like this suggestion.

Mitka

Re: Upgrade firewall

Founder102 — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:33:10 GMT

Love EzzOs' idea!! Not for eveyone,make this an an option for advanced users.

Re: Upgrade firewall

mattsegers — Sat, 08 May 2010 11:20:42 GMT

Very nice idea! I like Funbeta's name for it.

Definitely all for this idea