The Logs shows the history of Outpost Firewall activity. These are the logs in Outpost Firewall:
Allowed shows a log of all the applications and connections that Outpost Firewall allowed, whether the connection is still active or not. The listing is arranged most recent first (reverse date/time order)
Blocked shows the log of all the applications and connections that Outpost Firewall blocked, listed most recent first.
Reported is the log of all the attempts by applications and connections to access the Internet or LAN that you specified Outpost Firewall to report to you.
Some Outpost Firewall plug-ins are included in the set-up package that you downloaded from Agnitum's web site. Each plug-in has its own icon in the Left Panel and the log of its activity is displayed in the Information Panel. When Outpost Firewall is first installed the Plug-Ins list contains the following modules:
Ads displays a list of all the ads that were blocked.
Content displays all the web sites or pages that were blocked by this plug-in and the reason why.
DNS Cache displays the web addresses saved by Outpost Firewall to speed up your Internet connection to those sites.
Active Content displays the sites that had some of its active content blocked based on the settings for Java, VB Script, ActiveX and other active content elements.
Attachments Filter shows all the e-mail file attachments that were neutralized and quarantined from your computer.
Attack Detection shows any suspected attacks on your computer from the Internet, the ports involved and where the attacks are from.
The following topics give you more information about Outpost Log System:
Selecting the logs to be displayed
Filtering of events to be displayed
Configuring columns to be displayed