The latest release of McAfee's Personal Firewall, version 3.0, fuses NeoWatch's interface with earlier versions of McAfee's Personal Firewall. McAfee Visual Trace is able to look up the registered owners of the originating address, and if the malicious user's location falls within the United States, it can even display the hacker's street address.Īlong with NeoTrace, NeoWorx also makes a firewall product called NeoWatch, an intrusion detector which is known for its friendly GUI. The nodes are color-coded to represent the speed of the signal-red for slow and green for fast.
The program shows you the routes by which the malicious user contacted your computer graphically, as nodes displayed on a world map. Since the McAfee merger, the product has been renamed McAfee Visual Trace. HOW DOES IT WORK? Using the Internet tools whois and ping, NeoTrace tracks the origin of any malicious user who attempts to intrude on your system. To help it reach that goal, McAfee recently merged with NeoWorx, a company best known for NeoTrace, a product used by law enforcement to trace malicious users. Sam Curry, who has overseen firewall development at McAfee for some time, said HackerWatch is intended "not to start any witch hunts, but to get good quality information" from its users. The project, known as, is an ambitious attempt by McAfee, a division of Network Associates best known for its antivirus products, to create an interactive anti-hacker community online.
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