Firewall is an essential piece of software to the home PC as well as small office system where they are connected to Internet. It prevents hackers from installing malicious code, gain access to the personal information and use the user PC to attack other people’s computers. Firewall prevents from malicious traffic driving through the internet into the user computer. Therefore most of the malwares such as viruses, worms, spy-ware, Trojan horses and adwares could be forbidden from infecting the user’s computer.
Internet security software could be described as three core sections which are anti-virus, firewall and best practices. Antivirus program is crucial to dis-infect virus affected files and protects from possible infection. Firewall is a software that resides between the user system and internet to filter and monitor the network traffic in both directions. Best practices are essential to ensure the security and accuracy of the Internet Security software. For example, best practices may be like using author verified software and visiting known sites.
Using a firewall packaged internet security suite is an efficient and effective solution to protect the computer from viruses, worms, Trojan horses. hacking and intrusion. Internet Security Suites provides full range of protection tools to prevent from all of the feasible risk and threats. Internet Security Suites have antivirus, anti-spyware, spam guard, firewall and other optional features such as parental control, encryption and password managers. All of these protection mechanisms are proactive once a threat arrives to the system. Firewall is working as a boundary protector to prohibit malicious code from hackers enters into the system. So the prevention is made at the top level entry point instead of enable the malicious code come into the system.
Firewall examines the data passing through the internet and forbids the traffic that does not meet a certain criteria. Basic operations of different firewalls are similar, but the assessing criteria and way of monitoring traffic might be different. There are four different kind of firewall methods. Those are Packet filtering, circuit level filtering, application level filtering and stateful inspection. Most of the malware are spreading through applications, unknown websites and unknown networks. Firewall is a proactive protection that prevents from virus infection or spy-ware spread before they enter into the computer. This is achieved by scanning the incoming and outgoing addresses, port information and interacting processes of applications
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