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Viewing logged Firewall events

By default, all Firewall events are recorded in the Log Viewer.

To view logged firewall events:

  1. Select Tools | Logs| Log Viewer.
  2. Select Firewall, from the Alert Type drop-down list.

The following table provides an explanation of the log viewer fields available for Firewall events.

Field

Information

Rating

Each alert is high-rated or medium-rated. High-rated alerts are those likely to have been caused by hacker activity. Medium-rated alerts are likely to have been caused by unwanted but harmless network traffic.

Date/Time

The date and time the alert occurred.

Protocol

The communications protocol used by the traffic that caused the alert.

Program

The name of the program attempting to send or receive data. (Applies only to Program and ID Lock alerts).

Source IP

The IP address of the computer that sent the traffic that ZoneAlarm security software blocked.

Destination IP

The address of the computer the blocked traffic was sent to.

Direction

The direction of the blocked traffic. "Incoming" means the traffic was sent to your computer. "Outgoing" means the traffic was sent from your computer.

Action Taken

How the traffic was handled by ZoneAlarm security software.

Count

The number of times an alert of the same type, with the same source, destination, and protocol, occurred during a single session.

Source DNS

The domain name of the sender of the traffic that caused the alert.

Destination DNS

The domain name of the intended addressee of the traffic that caused the alert.

Firewall event log fields

See Also

Managing traffic sources

 
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