Users may permit applications manually from the filter rules. Tiny Personal Firewall also provides a database of common applications that use known ports. Remote access to logs and remote administration of the firewall can be enabled. Log information can be sent to a central syslog . Rules can be time controlled - days of the week, time range per day.
Rules can optionally create log entries.
An MD5 checksum of allowed application is maintained and used to identify applications which are mentioned in rules. The following tests were conducted in high security mode. A ping from a remote machine caused the user to be prompted, asking whether incoming ping should be allowed or not. The Netbus server could be started without Tiny Firewall objecting, but when trying to remotely connect to Netbus, a dialog box asked the user to accept or reject the connection. There was no logging of the scan and the alerts presented maybe difficult to understand for the typical user.