Learn more about Program Control

Trust

Displays the trust level of a program.

Norton collects this information from the Norton Community and assigns the following trust levels:

• Norton Trusted: Indicates the file that is Norton Trusted.

• Good: Norton has high indications that the file is trusted.

• Unproven: Norton does not have enough information about the file to assign a trust level to the file.

  The file is neither safe nor unsafe.

• Poor: Norton has only a few indications that the file is not trusted.

• Bad: Norton has very high indications that the file is not trusted.

  This file is suspicious and can harm your computer.

You can set the access level for each program based on the trust level.

Program

Displays the name of the program, or the name of the program's executable file and the location of the program.

Access

Displays the level of access that the program has. You can change the access level by selecting a different entry from the drop-down list.

Your options are:

• Allow

  When you select this option, Smart Firewall allows all network access attempts by the program.

• Block

  When you select this option, Smart Firewall denies all network access attempts by the program.

• Custom

  When you select this option, Smart Firewall lets you create the rules that control how the program accesses the network.

Changing the access level of the program from the default settings can change the behavior of the application. We recommend that you perform this action carefully.

Add

Lets you add a program to Program Control manually.

Modify

Opens the Rules window, in which you can customize rules for a selected program.

Remove

Lets you remove a selected program from Program Control.

When you remove the program, Smart Firewall removes the Program Rules for this program. In this case, the firewall displays alerts when a program accesses the network when the Automatic Program Control feature is turned off.

Rename

Lets you rename the selected program name.

The file name in the folder path does not change.