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The Hits View

The Hits View

The Hits view is where the action is. Whenever something gets blocked by the firewall it will show up on this list.

There is no need to react to the entries that show up on the list, they have already been blocked. There are however many actions you can apply to the already blocked hits that will affect how the firewall will treat similar hits in the future.

Managing the Hits View

Clearing the Hits view

Pressing the Clear button on the toolbar will clear the view of all hits currently in memory.

Reloading the Hits

Pressing the Reload button on the toolbar will read in all the hits from the system log files into memory and show them on the Hits view. If the system logs are very large this could take a long time on slower machines.

Saving the Hits to disk

Pressing the Save button on the toolbar will save the currently shown hits to a plain-text file. The plain-text file is in human readable format and can not be re-imported into Firestarter.

Customizing the Hits view

A lot more information is stored about the hits than what you see by default. To protect the user from information overload we have pre-selected some of the most common properties to show for the hits.

The Hits view can be customized from the View menu and the Hit columns submenu. Choosing a title from the list will either show or hide the column on the Hits view. The keyboard shortcuts Control-0 trough Control-9 will also show or hide an specific column.

Acting on the Hit Entries

By right clicking on an selected hit in the view, several options are presented to the user in the context menu.

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