How to set up your windows firewall

Introduction

In this entry you will learn how to set up your widows firewall to keep a log of all packets and successful connections that has been made on and from your computer! With the following steps you will learn how to keep track on unwanted connections in which could be a hacker that is connecting without you knowing it! In my studies I have found that TCP packets are real easy to copy and with that the hacker can use that to send worms, Trojans and so on into your system! It is important to have this set up and it is for a fact for your protection! A personal firewall is very important in this process and you can get it at any retail store! I have System Mechanic Professional 6 in which has yet to fail me. It comes with anti-hacker firewall and an anti-virus online scanner! Kasperskye is one of the top ten best system protection on the market and is on sale!

By: Joseph Wolfe

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Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Tips & Warnings:

Attention: This is important so that you can look for a pattern where a certain IP has dropped or connected to you computer more than one time in a row, to the same port more than once. If you do not recognize that IP and it's unknown or you know you haven't been browsing or connected to any website for very log to have that many connections at once then you need to run a WHOIS lookup to see what belongs to that IP and if the report is something you have no clue of what it is then you need to block that IP by setting a rule in your personal firewall in which will should walk you through that just go to the rules setting listed in the settings of that firewall!
Warning: Almost anyone can gain access to your computer without you knowing so it is Advised to follow the steps and what all activity coming and going from your system!

Step1

Go to your windows start button

Step2

Go to your control panel and right click on it

Step3

Right click on Windows Firewall

Step4

Click on the advanced tab located at the top

Step5

Where it says Security Logging (You can create a log file for troubleshooting purposes.) Click on settings

Step6

Check the boxes: Log Dropped Packets and Log Successful connections! Now the default size limit (KB) is already set but you can raise or lower the limit to where you would want it. Click on save as, then click on the desktop Icon located left of the box that pops up. Name the file and hit save.

Step7

Click ok on log settings, then click ok on the Windows Firewall and you are all set up! The log is on your desktop and you can view it anytime you want to see all that it had recorded!