Create an option in the firewall that shows (live) what programs are on-line at any given time.
Thanks.
Create an option in the firewall that shows (live) what programs are on-line at any given time.
Thanks.
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.
Create an option in the firewall that shows (live) what programs are on-line at any given time.
Thanks.
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.
Comodo Internet Security has this feature too, very nicely and cleanly inplemented in terms of UI. This would be nice.
OK, great. Thanks for the detail!
Dan
Just incase it will be a new feature it should be called Norton Firewall Insight (Just my own opinion)
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).
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.
Very good idea. This function is needed.
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). :)
Great idea!
A nice idea. I think this is useful and needed.
I like this suggestion.
Mitka
Love EzzOs' idea!! Not for eveyone,make this an an option for advanced users.
Very nice idea! I like Funbeta's name for it.
Definitely all for this idea
I too like to know when something is inbound and outbound, even if it's like the simple green/red status bars in the Notification Area, like PCTools Firewall Plus, and didn't even Zone Alarm have that in the tray also? Very nice to be able to flag that down when your system is idle, and you have a spike in the Firewall, just to see what's going on.
I wouldn't go as far as showing indicators in the system tray. Modern systems in this age of broadband are communicating with the internet almost continually, and there wouldn't be any added benefit in showing red and green arrows in the tray, as they would show all the time.
This should be an advanced option exposed on the back of the User Interface, something like Norton Tasks. Items that should be listed are the image names (if possible, with a sreentip showing the full path), process PID, ports opened by that process, the remote adress and port, and the amount of incoming and outgoing traffic. This could be coupled with Application Ratings, to show which of these processes are common, signed and safe.
Very nice idea indeed!
And it should look alot like TomiRed discreption, imho.
One of my biggest complaints about NIS is the lack of firewall options. Anything to improve the firewall gets my vote.