Rule Settings

Application filtering rules control interaction of a particular application with certain network hosts.

Create and edit rule

To add a new rule in Edit rule set window, press . To edit and existing rule, select the appropriate rule and press . Herewith in Access to network resources section User-defined must be on.

Configure the following parameters:

Parameter

Description

General

Rule name

The name of the created/edited rule.

Description

The rule description.

Action

The action for Dr.Web Firewall to perform when an attempt to connect to the Internet is detected:

Block packets—block the connection.

Allow packets—allow the connection.

State

Rule status:

Enabled—the rule is applied for all matching connections.

Disabled—the rule is temporary not applied.

Connection type

The direction of the connection:

Inbound—the rule is applied when someone from the network attempts to connect to an application on your computer.

Outbound—the rule is applied when an application on your computer attempts to connect to the network.

Any—the rule is applied regardless of packet transfer direction.

Logging

Logging mode:

Enabled—register events.

Disabled—do no log rule information.

Rule Settings

Protocol

The network and transport level protocols used for the connection attempt.

The following protocols of the network level are supported:

IPv4

IPv6

IP all—any version of the IP protocol

The following protocols of the transport level are supported:

TCP

UDP

TCP & UDP—TCP or UDP protocol

RAW

Local address/Remote address

The IP address of the remote host. You can specify either a certain address (Equal) or several IP addresses using a range (In range), specific subnet mask (Mask) or masks of all subnets in which your computer has a network address (MY_NETWORK).

To apply the rule for all remote hosts, select Any.

Local port/Remote port

The port used for the connection. You can specify either a specific port number (Equal) or a port range (In range).

To apply the rule for all ports, select Any.