To stop unauthorised access to your network from outside you need to have a firewall that monitors and blocks incoming traffic. To stop unauthorised access from your network to the outside you need a firewall that monitors and blocks outgoing traffic. This type is a useful back up for virus and ...
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How can I put the Windows XP firewall into an “allow all” port configuration and only block certain ports?
Without going into too much detail on why I need to do this, I'm trying to put the Windows XP Firewall into an allow all ports configuration, and only deny certain ports I have in a list.
I've ...
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Do I need both COMODO Firewall and Avast Antivirus or just COMODO Firewall is enough? [closed]
As a title : Do I need both COMODO Firewall and Avast Antivirus or just COMODO Firewall is enough ?
Why do I ask this question ? Because I've realized that COMODO Firewall can catch malware too but ...
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Do consumer routers with deep packet inspection for HTTP traffic exist? [closed]
I'm looking at my network's outbound HTTP traffic. My router, a Linksys WRT350N, provides only minimal traffic logging. The log isn't saved anywhere, and only the source and destination IP addresses ...
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How to configure LAN IP Filter on Huawei E586 UMTS Modem
I need to prevent clients of an Huawei E586 UMTS to WiFi modem from downloading much data from specific servers eg. Windows update or OSX update.
On the config page of the device there's an "LAN IP ...
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Temporarily only allow network-access via (sshd-socks) Proxy
I am alot on business trips using the hotel's hotspot.
I connect to my solaris-server using putty/ssh and establish a socks-proxy.
Using Chrome and Proxy Switchy, I surf via the sshd's socks-proxy.
...
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Custom DNS for Specific Access Points [Windows 7]
I would like to use Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4) at home, but the school firewall works through DNS, so using a custom name server disables accessing the internet. Is there any way to ...
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MacOS X: log is full of “stealth mode connection attempt”s from LAN router
I'm using MacOS X 10.6.8 and my logfile daily.log if full of lines like that:
Sun Jan 29 09:51:47 nameofmymac Firewall[77] : Stealth Mode
connection attempt to UDP 192.168.2.49:51855 from ...
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How to firewall a VPN connection in Windows 7?
I have a VPN connection to a private VPN server in another country. I don't want any internet packets to leave or enter my laptop unless they are going to or coming from the VPN server's IP.
Is ...
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Hitting try agin button again and again in firefox breaks the firewall?
The IT department of our company have blocked FB. but if we keep on hitting try again button again and again after 6-7 attempts it opens. Why is this so?
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How to connect to VPN through firewall
Our admins had blocked all outgoing ports except few like 80, 443, 110 etc. I want to use some software that utilizes other ports. So I decided to make a VPN connection to my dedicated server.
So we ...
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Mapping to Static IPs through a Netopia Cayman from behind a firewall?
Our business has, until recently, used dynamic IPs through our ISP (AT&T) for our office network. Recently we have adopted an external network application which requires the use of a handful of ...
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Home network firewall with monitoring and alerts [closed]
I have more than a few computers behind my home wireless router which only has the most basic firewall. I also run Windows 7, OSX, Ubuntu so trying to buy firewall software for each OS and running ...
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Win 7 firewall won't turn on, nor the McAfee firewall. Hit by “Win 7 Anti-virus 2012” trojan. Removed, but a downed firewall is a lasting legacy
I caught the Trojan right away, I think, but both my McAfee & Win 7 (x64) firewalls are not able to be engaged/turned on now. MS Error Code 0x80070424 when attempting to turn on Win 7 firewall. No ...
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Hints on diagnosing performance issue in OpenBSD firewall
My OpenBSD 4.6 pf firewall has started having really bad performance in the past few weeks. I've isolated the firewall (as opposed to the WAN connection, switch, cable, etc.) as the problem, but need ...
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How to protect myself from being sniffed? [closed]
comodo said that wifi is very unsecured and its easy for hackers to "read" what I do.
http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/firewall-alert.php
is there any free solution against it?
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How can I block external access to my local Apache test server on OS X?
I use the built-in Apache 2 that comes with OS X (10.6.8 in my case) for development. I've been looking in access logs and seen I'm constantly poked from outside by nosy bots. I'd like to make it stop ...
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How can I use an extra desktop as a basic home firewall?
I have an extra desktop PC with 2 NICs that I'd like to use as my home firewall. I'll install a linux distro meant to be used as a firewall on the desktop.
I was thinking of placing it in between the ...
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Windows HomeGroup and firewall not working after virus infection
I believe my Media Center master program picked up an infected .jpg when updating TV & movie artwork. Windows patching and AV were up to date before infection.
The virus was Windows 7 ...
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Block multiple programs through Windows 7 firewall quickly
I know how to block a single program through the firewall quite easily, but I have to do this for several applications now and the process becomes tedious. Is there any way to block multiple programs ...
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Common Ports with Adium
I was wondering if there was a way to use common ports with Adium in order to bypass firewall settings? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
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How do I block my torrent client from sending data in a certain time range?
I'd like to block my torrent client on Mac OS X Lion from accessing Internet, from 6pm to 2am, so that it doesn't slow down my connection while I need it.
Is there a way I could do that using some ...
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I can not reinstall ESET Smart security in my Windows Server
I have Windows Server 2008 R2 (remote access - can not use safe mode) and during installation of Eset Smart Security 4 server hanged and after that I reset server.
so I want to uninstall bad ...
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Cannot connect to WEBrick on home network
I'm an Android developer and often my applications require server-side code. I typically use Ruby on Rails for the web app, and during development will run the server on my local machine (Mac OS X) ...
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Firewall traffic filtering that blocks some necessary services
I study at a college where they use Cyberrom for Internet traffic filtering. I use Open Vpn to connect to my server run by a Webhosting company. The VPN server listens on a 40000+ port. I can connect ...
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Selectively enabling / disabling access to network for system services with ESET Firewall
I am using Eset Smart Security package version 5. My question is related to firewall module. For most of the time I am in administrator mode. It means that access to network is enabled only for those ...
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How can I block a program from accessing the Internet?
I really want to know how can I prevent a program to connect to Internet with Windows 7 firewall?
I have smart security nod32 business edition installed on my computer.
should i do this job with ...
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Remote desktop on custom ports
We have an office with a Windows 2003 SBS server and a couple of workstations. I set up Microsoft remote desktop for each of the computer in such a way that anyone could remote into the computers ...
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Remote desktop solution which works with port 80
The corporate firewall where I work won't allow any programs to access any ports other than 80.
This is a real bummer because when I try to remote in to external machines, using either LogMeIn.com or ...
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How can I open a port in OS X 10.6?
Mine is MacBook Air, so I cannot plug to the modem directly. And I do want to turn my firewall off.
How can I specify to open a port, like port 56789 in Mac OS 10.6.8?
I know in old Mac OS, there is ...
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ZoneAlarm 10 Firewall freezes applications
I have not had any problems with ZoneAlarm 9 Free Firewall, but 10 is a different matter.
Problem
Whenever I open an application requiring internet access, the following happens:
A ZoneAlarm ...
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Cant route into WAN with IPCop Router
i try to setup a IPCOP Router but i can't access the WAN from LAN but the LAN from WAN works fine. Example:
WAN IP from IPCOP 192.168.1.130/26
WAN IP aliase from IPCOP 192.168.1.131 ... 190 /26
WAN ...
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Build a Linux Firewall/Router/NAS/WAP [closed]
I want to build a linux based Firewall/Router/WAP from a PC that I have.
Here is what I want.
Act as a firewall where I can deny all incoming traffic except what I want
Allow me to run servers with ...
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None of the clients of LogMeIn Hamachi mesh-network are reachable
For some reason my Hamachi network stopped working. Here is what I have
Version of the Hamachi client is 2.1.0.122
It's "Mesh" network.
I have 7 clients, 3 of them are online right now.
All clients ...
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Windows XP Firewall Individual Interface Exceptions Don't Stick
In testing some machine hardening settings I noticed what appears to be a bug in Windows XP's firewall. If you open firewall.cpl and go to the Exceptions tab you can add exceptions for known ...
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How can I prove (with logging) where a port block is occurring?
How can I prove (with logging) where a port block is occurring?
I've set up an FTP site on IIS (windows 7 home) and set up a rule in the Windows Firewall allowing access. The ftp site is accessible ...
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How to listen to all ports (udp and tcp) or make them all appear open in Debian
I got an external Debian server. The problem is that my university campus doesn't allow connections to go outside when the port is different than TCP port 22, 80, 443, or UDP port 123. I tested them ...
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System and Router configuration for setting up a home firewall based on Zentyal
I am not much of a system administrator, so please be patient if this looks too simple for you.
I have a several computers at home, and all of them connect using an ADSL modem/router (and Wireless ...
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Windows 7 firewall causing remote connection to time out; should refuse connection
The Windows 7 Firewall is running with default options to allow outbound connections and block incoming connections. I have a process trying to connect regularly from within my local network, which is ...
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Learning to network w/ Linux on an old PC [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Leightweight Linux distro to install on my old PC
I am a senior computer science major who is looking to get some practical experience setting up my own network. I live ...
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Prompted to accept incoming network connections for an application defined in firewall
Each time I boot, I am prompted whether I want to accept incoming connections for the application.
I have already added manually the application to
System Preferences -> Security & Privacy ...
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Windows 7 ICS/Firewall Interoperability
I have ICS setup and working on a Win 7 box but I can't figure out how to block tcp:25 (SMTP) outbound through the ICS box to the internet from the "client machines".
Any ideas on how to block this ...
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Windows Security Alert for netsession_win.exe
My Windows Firewall blocked "netsession_win.exe" because it was accepting incoming network connections.
I have no clue what this program does. Should I allow the incoming connection?
BTW the ...
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Endian firewall: How to limit bandwidth per total host / user
we have an endian firewall whit 2 dsl line and 30 user/host who use internet. Is it possible to limit the total bandwidth PER active host ? Suppose the total bandwidth is 3mbps and there are 3 user ...
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Is Windows Firewall with Advanced Security available for Windows XP / Windows Server 2003?
Is Windows Firewall with Advanced Security available for Windows XP / Windows Server 2003?
If yes, what is the download link, or how do I add it on?
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Firestarter device not ready when booting Ubuntu
I am trying to get firestarter running on Ubuntu 11.10 and I am getting an error:
Failed to start Firewall
The device eth1 is not ready.
Please check your network device settings and make sure ...
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Download Gmail emails via HTTP
On my local university the public internet connection has POP and IMAP filtered; only HTTP and HTTPS are allowed. I'd like to use Thunderbird (or some other Email client) to download my Gmail emails ...
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“Play on another device” function not working with Samsung Allshare
Briefly
I can't get work "Play on another device" function
More detailed
My Samsung TV (which support network) and PC are in the same network.
The problem is, I can play PC contents from TV. But ...
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How to restrict file upload from specific folder in windows xp [closed]
I am trying to make copy protection.I can protect from edit, copy,save as actions but i can't protect from file uploading.My netowrk users shoud be some is full controll and some is only view.View ...
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Is hardware firewall useful?
I found out that my PC was attacked, which took almost 99% of my upload internet resource for unknown usage for more than two months. I formatted my PC; update windows and internet security. It should ...
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Why can't we turn off firewall And file sharing?
I was under the impression that turning off file sharing "makes it more secure". Especially when I like to have my firewall switched off, turning off file sharing becomes more important to me.
But ...
