You have found the problem with all software firewalls. They are not
user friendly and require numerous leaps of faith. If you do not have a
router with a hardware firewall, you can buy one for a few dollars and
have a very good defense against incoming attacks. I have yet to find a
software firewall for outgoing bad things that makes all the selections
of what to block or allow an educated decision rather than a guess as
you have found. I've noticed that over time the software is getting
better, but the last time I tried them, they were still lacking in lay
person explanations of what and why certain connections were being
attempted.
Tom Mayer
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> Greetings all,
>
> I just installed Kerio firewall and am purplexed as to what should or
> shouldn't be allowed connection. I use AOL and assumed anything with AOL in the
> name would be needed for my conection(???) so allowed them all as well as
> anything relating to AVG and Avast. I denied access to such things as Real Player
> and Internet Explorer (since I only use Opera as a browser). I also get
> messages that an address (of the numerical type) is trying to send packets to
> Kerio on my machine. (OK?)
>
> While attempting to write this I have been interrupted by several
> connection attempts such as;
>
> 222.161.2.9 port44429 wants to connect to port 1026 owned by "SYSTEM" on
> your computer
>
> And;
>
> ISMMODULE2.EXE from my computer to 76.9.9.190 port 80
>
> If I don't understand it, I don't allow it. But since I fail to understand
> most of what's displayed, I fear to create a rule against some benign, needed
> connection so end up denying over and over!
>
> I guess I'm asking if there is an 'easy' way to learn what these different
> request are really associated with so I can determine what to allow.
>
> Many Thanks,
> -Phillip Williams-
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