You can view the firewall activity, as well as a record of every action carried out, whenever necessary. In order to view the firewall activity report, select the Automatic protection area in the Control panel in the Platinum Internet Security screen.
When you access this section, a list containing all the protections will be displayed in the right panel of the screen. Click on the Network activity option in the Firewall protection section.
The two lists shown display the following data:
Programs that have open connections with the network. This list shows the programs currently connected to the network. That is, programs that are accessing the network for whatever reason or are in use by other programs or users connected to the network. Data is displayed in several columns:
Program (name of the program that is accessing the network), Path (directory in which the program is), Outbound connections allowed (number of outbound connections established by the program and allowed by the firewall), Outbound connections denied (number of outbound connections established by the program and denied by the firewall), Inbound connections allowed (number of inbound connections established by the program and allowed by the firewall) and Inbound connections denied (number of connections established by the program and denied by the firewall).
If you click the checkbox Show operating system programs, the list will also include operating system programs that are accessing the network for whatever reason.
Open connections of the selected program. When you select one of the programs in the top list (Programs with open connections to the network), this new list will display the connection type of the selected program. Data is displayed in several columns:
Protocol (protocol type through which the program is communicating with the network – a protocol is a set of code and formats -a language- used by computers to communicate), Status (connection status of the program: connected, listening, etc), Local port (communication port -in your computer- through which the program established the connection), Remote port (communication port -in the remote computer you are connected to –, through which the program established connection) and IP address (number or numeric code that uniquely identifies every computer that exists).