McAfee Personal Firewall

Why let your computer stay raw and unprotected when McAfee Personal Firewall is here to help you. McAfee Personal Firewall, which was first introduced in 2005 to McAfee security suites citing the growing importance of keeping safe online, is a personal firewall designed to check and control the incoming & outgoing traffic to and from a computer and keep unauthorized users from connecting to it. The tool has improved security levels, advanced security features that stand it apart from other firewall programs, and close integration with third-party applications to make sure non-disruptive functioning in a computer.

In this post, I am going to discuss how McAfee Personal Firewall works to protect users from online attacks and intrusions that sneak in their computers without their permissions. Let me tell you first that McAfee® Personal Firewall no longer comes as a standalone program. It now comes integrated with McAfee Total Protection, Internet Security, and Virus scan Plus McAfee security suites.

How McAfee Personal Firewall works:

The firewall has 6 security levels that pose as an unbeatable security barrier between your computer and the Internet. Whatever comes in and whatever goes out using your Internet connection is monitored and controlled to provide maximum protection and blockage against unauthorized intrusion and several types of threats and infections like viruses, spyware, bots, worms, and rootkits etc.

Below are the six levels that McAfee® Personal Firewall has:

Lockdown - This feature blocks all types of connections including yours that try to connect to your computer. It's like un-plugging the network cable to completely disconnect from the Internet connection.

Stealth - This feature blocks all those connections for which you didn't configure a rule for. So if a connection, which you haven't recognized as valid will not be able to connect to your network. If you want to allow a connection, you will have to let it be recognized first by the McAfee firewall by creating a rule.

Open - This feature allows you to make connection to all connection types. This is like disabling the firewall and making your network exposed to all the connections.

Tight - This feature allows one-time access to users for an application. If you want to grant further access to other users, you will need to configure it manually.

Standard - With this feature, you can grant other users access to multiple applications. You will again have to configure it manually if you want to continue granting access.

Trusting/automatic - This feature allows you to keep up little or no action at all to allow other connections to connect to your computer.

So, waiting is not an option if you want to keep your computer and Internet connection safe. Install a McAfee security suite with McAfee® Personal Firewall today and stay protected forever.

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