Irbis Firewall: Your personal firewall software for Windows XP/2000

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Getting started

See also: Irbis Firewall Overview > Irbis Firewall Main Window

Irbis Firewall is a firewall application for Microsoft Windows ME/2000/XP developed to protect your computer from network attacks while it is connected to the network. This document describes most common actions you can perform with Irbis Firewall:

Irbis Firewall startup

Irbis Firewall is ready to work immediately after installation complete.

By default when run for the first time Irbis Firewall will shows you configuration wizard. Configuration wizard allows you to configure Irbis Firewall step-by-step by asking you questions and allowing you to make a choice. Irbis Firewall configuration wizard was developed by the network security specialists, if you use defaults, you will get well-configured security settings that will keep your computer in safe!

Interaction with Irbis Firewall

While working, Irbis Firewall can show alerts when dangerous network packet received or sent. In most cases on home PC it's safe and usefull to Ignore such packets. But if you want that packets of such kind was processed separately, you can save rules that always will be applied to all packets of such kind. To save rules, you need to click Access control button in the alert window. And again, Irbis Firewall was developed so that its motion and default settings is the safest choice.

Changing interface language

To change Irbis Firewall interface language, select Change language item in the System menu. After you select a new language, all Irbis Firewall messages and captions will display in the selected language.