Norman Personal Firewall keeps unauthorized users out of your system.
Personal
computers and computers in an organization have information which is
valuable for the user. However, that information may also be valuable for
others who should not have access to it.
Every day
the media publish articles about people and organizations that have been
attacked by “crackers” trying
to gain information from networks or single workstations.
Even if
computer does not have valuable information, it may be compromised and
used maliciously. It may be used as a tool to attack other computers.
Early in 2000 crackers used a lot of computers belonging to unknowing
owners, to shut down several major web sites by using a technique called
Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks.
To
prevent this from happening you need to be able to keep unauthorized
people out of your systems.
Almost all
organizations are using Firewalls to stop these problems. However, such
systems are usually too expensive for small organizations and home users.
Norman's
product - The Norman Personal Firewall - is designed to be used by home
users and organizations that want to protect their PCs from being
compromised by attacks from the Internet or the local network.
System
requirements
Any Pentium
class PC running Windows 95/98/Me or Windows NT/2000.
