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How to restore Windows Firewall after some malware deleted its service?
Yesterday I visited some web site, and apparently got infected via some Flash exploit. Microsoft Security essentials immediately kicked in, and displayed a warning about four items:
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How to setup Windows 7 firewall to work like a normal personal firewall?
Since Windows 7 already comes with its own firewall, I prefer not to install a 3rd party one.
However, when I started trying to set it up, I quickly discovered that it's much less user-friendly than ...
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What happened to my “Predefined rules” in Windows Firewall? How can I get them back?
Windows Firewall Advanced Settings in Windows 7 , has predefined rule sets.
When I click the "Add Rule..." button in my Windows 7 Ultimate install, it looks like this:
But, on a machine I have ...
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Cannot turn on “Network Discovery and File Sharing” when Windows Firewall is enabled
I have a problem similar to
this one. Windows Firewall prevents File and Printer sharing from working
and Why does File and Printer Sharing keep turning off in Windows 7?
I cannot turn on Network ...
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How To Allow Web Browsing Through Windows Firewall
I suppose this question might seem useless at first glance, but I'm trying to lock down the outbound firewall rules on my PC. My thinking is that if there were any malicious software on my PC, I ...
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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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Add exception in Bit Defender (Internet Security 2011) to allow network sharing to other computer
How can I add and exception to my network so I could share this computer to other computers in my network. I'm using BitDefender Internet Security 2010 on my Windows 7, now whenever I would like to ...
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VMware virtual network adapters and Windows Firewall
I am running VMware Workstation 7.1.4 on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1-U (x64). Aside from the physical network adapter, I have created a single virtual network adapter (VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for ...
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How to disable 'hidden' Windows Firewall Filter?
I have used the command "netsh WFP Show State" to dump to disk (wfpstate.xml) a list of all active windows filters, and found a filter called "Port Scanning Prevention Filter". For diagnostic ...
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Sharing a folder only over a particular network interface
Is it possible to set up sharing on just one network card? I want to share a folder or two only on my wired connection, but not my wireless connection.
I couldn't find any resources online to do ...
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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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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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Google Chrome giving error 138
Google Chrome randomly stopped working one day and is giving me this error:
Google Chrome is having trouble accessing the network.
This may be because your firewall or antivirus software ...
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Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Cannot Turn-on the Firewall Error Code 0x80070422
When I try to turn-on the Windows firewall, I get the error code 0x80070422 which states "Windows Firewall can't change some of your settings." I could not find any solution on Microsoft website.
I ...
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Can't map a network drive through VPN (it works over the regular network)
I need to map a network drive over VPN. The server is running Windows Vista Business 64-bit and the client runs Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit.
The computers are on two different networks. Windows ...
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Open a port safely in firewall for a PC connected to Internet
This is related to this question PCs in same network can not communicate
My real problem was that I have a web application I want to test running in PC1 but I noticed I could not even ping the ...
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How do I block all outgoing ports in Windows XP firewall?
The built-in Windows firewall seems to only block incoming ports, but not any outgoing traffic.
I am looking for an application to install on an xp machine which can be configured a way to block ...
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Windows Firewall - simple way to block an IP address that is scanning? User keeps getting locked
I am using Windows Server 2008 - fully patched.
One of my user accounts keeps getting locked. It is easy enough to unlock it - but it is happening with increasing frequency - and the user is not ...
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Windows 7: How to mark an isolated subnet as “private”
I have set up a number of virtual machines on my Windows 7 - where all the guests are also Windows 7. I hooked up a host-only network adapter to the virtual machines. Since this network is completely ...
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Block access to server on Windows 7
I need to block access temporarily to a server to do some testing. I tried adding an outbound rule to block all ports with the remote IP address of the server on the Windows Firewall, but I can still ...
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How can I configure Windows Firewall without turning the service on?
I suddenly could not RDP into my server after rebooting it. Turned out the Firewall was blocking me, I remotely shut off the firewall service (parallels virtuozzo panel) and was able to RDP in. When I ...
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Is my Windows Firewall active?
I'm trying to set a simple public block for an application for both inbound and outbound connections. I'm using Windows 7, but my friend is still able to connect to the application. Steps I took are ...
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Why is IIS able to receive HTTP 80 traffic, though the firewall rule is disabled?
Using Windows7 Home Premium. It's a development machine, but that shouldn't matter.
I have IIS installed and can browse to http://localhost websites from the local machine. The default website is ...
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Windows Firewall is blocking Windows Update
I recently uninstalled ZoneAlarm and have decided to use Windows Firewall as my firewall as ZoneAlarm was causing me grief when I was syncing my iphone.
Anyway, I've noticed just then that Windows ...
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Can not use telnet localhost
I can't use command telnet localhost, always get this error :
Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port
23: Connect failed
Even I have all ports allow ...
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Windows Firewall Configuration for Blocking Internet Access
I have a PC and a laptop. I would like to make my PC act as server and my laptop as a client. I want to implement a freeware HTTP proxy (freeproxy 4.10) on my PC so that it can filter certain web ...
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Windows Firewall prevents File and Printer sharing from working
I have a domain-joined machine (Win2K8R2) that I'm using at work, and I'd like to copy some files to my personal machine (Win7) that is currently not on the domain.
If Windows Firewall is enabled, I ...
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Is there an easier way to open ports for the Media Center Extender?
I'm trying to get the Xbox set up as a Media Center Extender and it's not helping that this computer's firewall is cranked up (Windows 7 Home Premium, by the way). I find that I have to open up a ...
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Help with Zone Alarm Firewall?
I have Windows XP on which I want to allow inbound access. My ISP has given me static public IP address but I've had this strange problem I can not somehow access my system from outside.
I have ...
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How can I stop Windows Firewall from blocking certain sites?
I'm currently using a wireless network in a hotel. Because of this, I set the network location to "Public". Everything was fine for a couple of days but yesterday I was unable to connect to a specific ...
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How do I assign Windows Firewall profiles to network interfaces from the command line?
I would like to assign Windows Firewall's public profile to the public Ethernet interface and the private profile to the private Ethernet interface. I can do this with the GUI via
Open Windows ...
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If you're running a web-app on port 8080 and don't want external users to see the app, how do you block it in Windows Firewall?
When I'm working on my app in a coffee shop, I want to make sure no one can see the app, which runs on localhost:8080.
How do you configure Windows Firewall to block external connections to 8080 but ...
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How can I use Windows Firewall to only permit the Windows Update service to make an outbound connection?
I'm trying to tailor my Windows Firewall settings (using the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security console) to only permit programs that need to access the Internet with an outbound connection to do ...
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Why is my Windows Firewall allowing connections from IP addresses other than which I specified?
I created a windows firewall rule restricting access to port 3389 (RDP) to only one Remote IP. However, I'm still able to Remote Desktop from other machines... Why would this be? Even if I disable the ...
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Can I define my own “set of predefined computers” in Windows Firewall?
According to Microsoft, I can.
Note:
You can also define or select a set of computer from a drop-down menu that has a predefined set of computer. Refer to the Windows Firewall with Advanced ...
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6 blocks Skype 5.3 and prevents it from working
I have Skype 5.3.0.108 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6. I tried to add Skype to the "trusted zone" but Kaspersky is still blocking Skype. Any idea how to fix this issue?
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Where are the rules defined for determining when a specific Windows firewall profile should be applied?
I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and have 2 network interfaces, one connected to the pubic Internet and the other connected to a private LAN.
When looking at rules in Windows Firewall, ...
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Blocking web sites with Windows Firewall
Is it possible to use Windows Firewall to block specific web sites for all browsers?
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web server not responding
I am setting up Apache server on my Windows 7 machine. My machine is directly connected to the cable modem; so I believe that my machine has an internet IP (not just a local IP). I am able to open my ...
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Creating windows firewall outbound rule for Google Chrome to not access a specific port
I am trying to disallow my Chrome browser to access a specific port on a remote machine.
To be more clear: I want e.g. Opera to be able to access the TCP port 1850 but i want to block Chrome on TCP ...
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Can't open port 80 externally with Windows XP Professional SP3
I have Windows XP Professional, SP3. I'm running a webserver which listens on port 80. I have a dedicated ip address. Localhost on 80 resolves ok:
http://localhost:80
but I cannot get it to resolve ...
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Allow Single IP to access ASP.NET Web Service (ASMX) using Firewall
I have one asp.net web service (asmx) in separate project that is hosted on windows server having other asp.net web applications running on it. How can I restrict asp.net web service to be accessed by ...
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Windows 7 Firewall Blocking FTP Server
Everything else is configured. When I turn the firewall off, it connects. When I turn it on, it doesn't. I've added inbound and outbound rules, opening port 21 for all programs and services, but it's ...
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web server can be accessed by network computer but not remote, checked port fwding
I am running out of things I know to check for this problem: I am running a web server on port 3000, before I go on any further, I'd like to mention that I have been able to access the server from ...
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Create firewall “profiles” for Windows 7
Is there any way to configure a couple of firewall profiles in Windows 7?
As I use mobile broadband on when traveling, I don't want virus scanner/windows updates etc running and chewing up my mobile ...
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If I start the Windows Firewall/ICS service will it automatically turn on the firewall
I have a new 2003 server up and running at a data center. I want to turn on the windows firewall, but I have to start the Windows Firewall/ICS service to do it. I don't want to turn it on and then ...
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Allowing IP range in Windows Firewall
I installed Windows 7 on my main machine and Windows Firewall is causing havoc with my home network. I can't seem to connect to the main machine running Windows Firewall from any other machines on my ...
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Windows vista firewall exceptions unchangeable
I want to allow a program (iTunes) through my windows firewall, so i check it in the program or port list under the exceptions tab (in my windows firewall settings), then i click OK. When i reopen the ...
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some HTTPS sites getting blocked on one machine in network
I have a few computers connected to the internet via a router. I have been having some trouble with this one Windows 7 desktop. I can browse most of the sites without any trouble but some sites where ...
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Can you use the Windows 7 firewall to close ports over VPN?
I use VPN connection (specifically ipredator) for browsing over unsecured WiFi connections from my laptop (in coffee shops, etc.) - but at the other end of the VPN connection, all my ports are open to ...
