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| Thread ID: 36793 | 2003-08-20 09:35:00 | Kerio 2.14 Perhaps Susan could help(but anyone's help would be appreciated | Iris (475) | Press F1 |
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| 168973 | 2003-08-20 09:35:00 | Haven't used a firewall before so it's all new to me. Read your comment earlier Susan about Kerio 2.14 and as there have been other positive comments about Kerio I decided to give it a go. Especially with all these viruses flying around at the moment Lots to learn of course and already I am getting lots of "messages" from the programme while on the internet. So while I get the hang of the programme and read the "help section" are there any basic settings I need to get sorted out. Any other suggestions re its use would be appreciated I have windows 98se and AVG and Spybot Iris |
Iris (475) | ||
| 168974 | 2003-08-20 09:43:00 | Suggest you read the manual - if it didn't come with your download you can download it in pdf format from their website - it's got a good deal of basic info that should set you up. Meantime just be prepared to do a fair bit of trial and error - my advice is block anything and everything with a permanent block rule, and once you find that something online doesn't work, then amend the rule that's causing the disfunction. The most important "allow" rules will be for your http and pop ports, but only for the browser and email application you usually use. If the above is a bit unclear then you'll find a bit more enlightenment with time, and also after reading the manual. I've been fine-tuning my firewall/s on and off for nearly 6 years, and I still make minor modifications (mostly due to changing Operating Systems) |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 168975 | 2003-08-20 09:55:00 | Hi Iris, glad to hear that you are giving Kerio a go. :-) You might like to have a good read of the following sites: www.blarp.com www.dslreports.com These were posted here a few days ago and have very good information in them. The first site has lots of rule sets that you can use if you want to, but it is not essential to do so -- I had a good play with them myself mainly for the learning experience. :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 168976 | 2003-08-20 23:54:00 | Thanks Greg and Susan for your quick response to my query . Those two websites are certainly helpful, Susan, thanks for that . Am on quite a learning curve as far as firewalls go . Wet and windy here so a good excuse to sit and study all the information |
Iris (475) | ||
| 168977 | 2003-08-21 17:47:00 | Hey Greg, how do you get by with changing your OS and keeping your firewall settings? Do you re-set the firewall up every time, or have you managed to export the settings off somewhere and saved them?? I think one way to save the settings of Norton IS is to copy the "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared" to a safe place. It stores the virus defs in there anyway ;) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 168978 | 2003-08-21 17:56:00 | Nah, can't import them from diff o/s's (as far as I know) - I recreate all the rules manually | Greg S (201) | ||
| 168979 | 2003-08-21 23:07:00 | PoWa, you can save the persfw.conf file and reuse it after a reinstall or whatever if you have lots of settings saved. Otherwise, like Greg I just create a new set of rules. It pays to do that when changing to a new OS anyway, because Win 98 is a LOT different to Win XP and needs different rules. Every now and then I will delete the persfw.conf file and start a fresh lot of rule settings just to clear out old rules that may no longer be relevant after uninstalling programs, etc. |
Susan B (19) | ||
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