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To enable the built-in firewall of Windows XP:

• Open Network Connections in the Control Panel.
• Click on the Dial-up, LAN or High-Speed Internet Connection that you want to protect, and then, under Network Tasks, click Change settings of this connection:
  
• In the Advanced tab, under Internet Connection Firewall select Protect my computer and network by limiting or preventing access to this computer from Internet:
  
• Click on the Settings... button to change the settings for the firewall, in the tab Security Logging select the logging options and a path for the log file:
  

Using fwlogwatch to analyze the log file:

• Read the fwlogwatch README and man page
• You can build and run fwlogwatch natively with cygwin or remotely on unix
• Specify the parser for the log file with -P w,
  For example, fwlogwatch -vv -P w -f /winxp/firewalllog/myfirewall.log

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