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Who's There? Firewall Advisor
User's Guide
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The Who's There? Firewall Advisor, from Open Door Networks, works
with your Macintosh's firewall to help you analyze, understand
and respond to access attempts detected by the firewall. Who's
There? reads the log file produced by your firewall, and then
allows you to:
- view access attempts based on several criteria, including date and
risk level
- analyze access attempts to determine factors like risk level
- understand issues associated with specific access attempts, as well as broader
security concerns
- summarize accesses by IP address and service type (port number)
- investigate details of the accessor's IP address, including their network's
location and administrator's email address
- draft an email to the network administrator about the access
Who's There? analyzes access attempts and provides advice specific
to the Mac OS X environment. It's also integrated with our book,
Internet Security for Your Macintosh and iPhone, security blog (isfym.com), Twitter stream (http://twitter.com/isfym), and "Top 10" list. Chapter numbers and section names of relevant passages
from the book are indicated throughout this User's Guide in blue italics.
For details of new features in Who's There? 2.3, see the What's New section of this user's guide.
Table of Contents
What's New in 2.3 |
- Enhancements
- Integration with the DoorStop X Firewall
- Integration with Internet Security for Your Macintosh and iPhone
- The DoorStop X Security Suite
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Getting Started |
- System requirements
- Basic concepts
- Installation & quick start
- Upgrade installations
- Purchasing Who's There?
- Related products
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Main Window |
- Data filters
- The filter field
- Data view tabs
- Access History detail
- Summary by service
- Summary by IP address
- Sorting the data
- Action buttons
- Service Info
- Who's There?
- Draft Email
- Searching the data
- Exporting data
- Extra information on services
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Who's There? Dialog |
- WHOIS database search
- Draft email
- Map
- Service info
- Information about a service
- Accessing DoorStop X from Who's There?
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Other Windows |
- General Preferences
- Log files
- log resetting & archiving
- search order
- year data
- choosing another log file
- Email template
- Display Preferences
- Icon size
- Highlight new lines
- Omit duplicate lines
- Columns
- Lookup IP address
- Online help
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Accessing the Book, the Blog, and Twitter |
- Browsing
- Information on a specific service
- The standalone version of "Internet Security for Your Macintosh and iPhone"
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Investigating Accesses |
- Investigating possibly malicious activity and other problems
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Troubleshooting |
- Common problems & their solutions
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Appendices |
- Mac OS X 10.4 built-in firewall
- Who's There?, firewalls and home routers
- Common port numbers
- Firewall log file formats
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This entire User's Guide is copyright (C) 2000-2009 Open Door
Networks, Inc. Who's There? Firewall Advisor and DoorStop X are
trademarks of Open Door Networks, Inc. Norton Personal Firewall
is a trademark of Symantec Corporation. All other trademarks are
owned by their respective companies.