Behavior of the Security Agent firewall when "In Office" or "Out of Office" location is enabled

- Updated:
- 30 Dec 2019
- Product/Version:
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 8.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.0
- Platform:
- Windows 2003 Compute Cluster Server
- Windows 2003 Datacenter
- Windows 2003 Datacenter 64-bit
- Windows 2003 Enterprise
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Summary

Know how the Security Agent firewall behaves when it is enabled in at least one of the following locations:

In-office = disabled
Out-of-office = enabled

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Details

The following lists the behavior of the Security Agent firewall under different scenarios:

When In office and Out of Office is enabled, firewall service and driver is running.
When In office is disabled and Out of Office is enabled, the Firewall service and driver is running.
- When client location is In office, firewall profile filtering is bypassed or does not take effect.
- When client switches to Out of Office, firewall profile filtering will take effect.
When In Office is enabled and Out of Office is disabled, firewall service and driver is running.
- When client location is In Office, firewall profile filtering will take effect.
- When client switches to Out of Office, firewall profile filtering will be bypassed.
When In Office and Out of Office is disabled, firewall service is stopped or firewall driver is removed/uninstalled.