Reference: Configuration options
Avira Professional Security - User Manual (Status: 23 Sep. 2011) 132
Shows the action that the Avira FireWall will automatically take when the
application is using the network, whatever the network usage type is. With
a mouse click on the link you can switch to another action type. The action
types are Ask, Allow or Deny. Ask is the default action.
Advanced configuration
If the network accesses of an application require individual rules, you can create the
application rules based on packet filters in the same way as you created the adapter rules.
To change to the advanced configuration of the application rules, first activate the
Expert mode option in the Configuration window.
Then go to Configuration > Online protection > FireWall > Settings and enable
the Advanced settings option under Application rules.
Save the setting by clicking Apply or OK.
Under Configuration > Online protection > FireWall > Application rules
section, an additional column with the heading Filtering is displayed in the list of
application rules, with the entry Basic for each application.
Number of active connections opened by the application.
Shows the action that the Avira FireWall will automatically take when the
application is using the network, whatever the network usage type is.
If you choose Basic in the Filtering column, you can click the link to
select another action type. The values are Ask, Allow, or Deny.
If you choose Advanced in the Filtering column, the Rules action type is
displayed. The Rules link opens the Advanced application rules
window, in which you can enter specific rules for the application.
Shows the type of filtering. You can select another type of filtering by
clicking the link.
Basic: In the case of simple filtering, the specified action is carried out on
all network activities performed by the software application.
Advanced: With this type of filtering, the rules that were added to the
extended configuration are applied.
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