There are several reasons why you may want to reset your Personal Firewall rules.
- They are too strictly configured and deny access for applications and addresses that you trust.
- They are not restrictive enough and allows malicious operations and processes to connect to/from you computer to/from the Internet.
Procedure:
- Right-click the Personal Firewall tray icon
- Select Settings
- Select the Security module
- Click the Rules button
- Select the first rule in your list, Click the Shift key on your keyboard and select the last rule in your list.
- Press the Delete button in the Personal Firewall Console or on your keyboard
- Click OK
- Select the Active Content module
- Select Advanced
- Repeat step 5 - 7
OR if you are running Norman Internet Control
- Right click the N tray icon
- Select Configuration Editor
- From the Install and update products section, unselect the product Norman Personal Firewall.
- Save your configuration
- Wait a few minutes, then restart the computer
- Reselect Personal Firewall in the Configuration Editor, and restart the computer when the installation asks you to.
- Respond with NO, when/if the installation pops up a question if you want to import previous firewall rules
- Select Auto Setup...