About the OfficeScan Firewall Parent topic

The OfficeScan firewall protects clients and servers on the network using stateful inspection and high performance network virus scanning. Through the central management console, you can create rules to filter connections by application, IP address, port number, or protocol, and then apply the rules to different groups of users.
Note
Note
You can enable, configure, and use the OfficeScan firewall on Windows XP computers that also have Windows Firewall enabled. However, manage policies carefully to avoid creating conflicting firewall policies and producing unexpected results. See the Microsoft documentation for details on Windows Firewall.
The OfficeScan firewall includes the following key features and benefits: