The Personal Firewall is usually set to start automatically when you turn on your computer, protecting you immediately. If you want to make changes in the configuration of your Personal Firewall or if you want to review logs of potential attacks on your Personal Firewall, you bring up the application itself so that you can make changes.
You have two main ways of opening the Personal Firewall application:
System Tray
Icon
, an appearance that indicates that all is well, and that
your system is transmitting traffic both to and from the network. To use
the system tray icon, right click on it and make choices from there. For
more information on how to use the system tray icon, see "Shortcut
to the Personal Firewall: the
System Tray Icon."
The
Main Console