Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 05:43:16 03/23/04
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>These bloody firewalls are often the reason why lan and sometimes internet does >not work properly. Yes I got rid of that stupid program the day it decided to block all my surfing in IE. It went crazy stating any site was unsafe, and did not even complete the uninstall, I had to eradicate it by hand, editing the registry to find a fu*** prorgam that was lockin IE at startup. Now I'm back to a Tiny Personal Firewall, an old version which was free, had no wizard, and I can easely control anything with rules on the trafic. The funny thing is that the communication in my two PCs becomes asymetric for file sharing: both run XP and have as first rule "any packet any protocol in my LAN is safe (my LAN=192.168.1.*)". The funny side is that PC A can see the disks from PC B, PC B cannot see the disks of PC A unless I turn off the firewall on PC A. When the disk is "mounted" I can turn on the firewall again on PC A and Pc B continues to work fine accessing remote data. It is as if MS uses some weird way to locate disks not going via UDP/TCP. By the, way sice I'm behind a natted router I could even live without a firewal since I have no security issues, packets don't get in in any case, I just want to see when programs start to communicate versus outside, and this happens much more often than one would think, and I don't want to allow it sometimes.
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