Firewall interactivity levels
Vallum is designed to let the user choose its interactivity level ranging from a totally silent firewall to an annoyingly verbose one.
The main difference between the two are notification alerts, those popups that ask you whether to pass an app’s connection or not.
Basically there are three interactivity levels:
- totally silent (notification alerts are disabled)
- extremely verbose (notification alerts are enabled)
- average (notification alerts are enabled using a strong exclusions setting, for example excluding system folders like /usr and /Applications)
By the way, Vallum remembers user choices and stores its rules to enable them at system boot. So if you choose a very interactive strategy then you will see a lot of notifications at the beginning, but after some days of usage it will be much better, as common connections already has their rules set and won’t trigger notification alerts any more.
It’s up to the user to explore all the possibilities offered by Vallum, combining all its features and options.
Firewall interactivity levels
Vallum is designed to let the user choose its interactivity level ranging from a totally silent firewall to an annoyingly verbose one.
The main difference between the two are notification alerts, those popups that ask you whether to pass an app’s connection or not.
Basically there are three interactivity levels:
- totally silent (notification alerts are disabled)
- extremely verbose (notification alerts are enabled for all connections)
- average (notification alerts are enabled but both Managed Folders rules and Global Rules help reducing firewall interactivity)
By the way, Vallum remembers user choices and stores its rules to enable them at system boot. So if you choose a very interactive strategy then you will see a lot of notifications at the beginning, but after some days of usage it will be much better, as common connections already has their rules set and won’t trigger notification alerts any more.
It’s up to the user to explore all the possibilities offered by Vallum, combining all its features and options.