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Customize the specific access settings for an application

Your Norton product lets you customize the incoming and outgoing network connections settings for each application on your Mac. You can specify the IP addresses from which you want to allow or deny connection attempts. The specific access settings that you specify appear in the row under the application name with a minus (-) and plus (+) sign.

You can add any number of specific access settings for an application. For example, you can add a specific access setting for an application to allow connection from all the computers on your network. You can also add another specific access setting for the same application to block connection from a single computer.

Customize the specific access settings for an application

  1. Open your Norton device security product.

    If you see the My Norton window, next to Device Security, click Open.

  2. In the Norton product main window, click Advanced or Settings.

  3. On the left pane, click Firewall.

  4. In the Connection Blocking row, click the settings icon.

  5. In the Connection Blocking window, in the Editing settings menu, select the network location for which you want to configure the specific access settings for an application.

  6. In the View menu, select Applications.

  7. Select one of the following tabs:

    Incoming

    Lets you specify the access settings for the incoming connections that use the application.

    Outgoing

    Lets you specify the access settings for the outgoing connections that use the application.

  8. In the View pane, click the + sign next to the application name.

  9. In the Edit address window, use the following options to select the type of access for the connections:

    Allow

    Allows the connections to or from an IP address.

    Block

    Blocks the connections to or from an IP address.

  10. Select the one of the following option to customize the specific access settings:

    All computers on my current network

    Lets you allow or block connections to or from all computers on your network.

    A single computer

    Allow or block connections to or from the computer with the IP address that you specify.

    All IP addresses beginning with

    Allow or block connections to or from computers with the base address that you specify.

    All IP addresses on a network

    Allow or block connections to or from computers on a local network that share the base address and the mask address that you specify.

  11. Click Save.

  12. Click Done.

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DOCID: v18928895
Operating System: Mac
Last modified: 09/06/2023