professional question: real time XP firewall log viewer

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  • mmsmsmmzm@.

    professional question: real time XP firewall log viewer

    I guess products are available that will do this... but I want to
    build from scratch. An example may be products from
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    Can anyone think of a simple way to write a VB.net program to capture
    log entries from the process that runs as:
    " [drive letter]:[directory]\system32\svcho st.exe -k netsvcs "
    under the name of :
    "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)"
    and display the entries that appear in the pfirewall.log file AS they
    are written?

    I haven't tried anyting yet... but I just wanted to get some ideas
    about the "possibilit y" that this work.

    It seems that through explorer, the file is locked while used by the
    process... so I suppose the vb.net exe may also be locked out...

    Will I have to write a separate "process" in VB.NET that captures the
    messages from "netsvcs"?

    Any help is welcome,
    Thanks.

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