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Event ID 5160: The Windows Filtering Platform Audit Mode has allowed a connection or packet that would have been blocked

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The Windows Filtering Platform Audit Mode has allowed a connection or packet that would have been blocked.

Event 5160
Security-Auditing
Security log
Audit
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
The Windows Filtering Platform Audit Mode has allowed a connection or packet that would have been blocked.

Application Information:
	Process ID:		…
	Application Name:	…

Network Information:
	Direction:		…
	Source Address:		…
	Source Port:		…
	Destination Address:	…
	Destination Port:		…
	Protocol:		…
	Interface Index:		…

Filter Information:
	Filter Name:		…
	Filter Origin:		…
	Filter Run-Time ID:	…
	Layer Name:		…
	Layer Run-Time ID:	…
	Sublayer Information:	…
	Remote User ID:		…
	Remote Machine ID:	…
	Original Profile:		…
	Current Profile:		…
	Is Loopback:		…
	Has Remote Dynamic Keyword Address:		…
	Filter Action:		…

Firewall Information:

	Policy Store:		…
	Modifiable:		…
	Callout Involved:		…
	Callout ID:		…