Re: Limit Access?

From: Animorph840 (newsgroups@anigalax.8m.com)
Date: 07/19/02 

From: Animorph840 <newsgroups@anigalax.8m.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:12:57 -0400

One way to block it would be to run a port mapper (relayer) on a
computer with internet access and set the host file on the other
computers to resolve liveupdate.symantec.com to that computer.

In article <Xns924C43B778A62unmonitoredhotmailco@24.24.0.10>,
unmonitored@hotmail.com says...
> Sorry guy but if you want Live Update then those PCs will have web access
> as well. Live update uses port 80/HTTP to grab its data so you would
> need to allow outgoing TCP port 80 traffic from those hosts. When you do
> this they will also be able to browse the web.
>
> A kinda of workaround would be to place the correct entry for
> liveupdate.symantec.com (ping it to find the IP address) in their HOSTS
> files (for Win NT/2000/XP that is located at c:\winnt\system32\drivers
> \etc) and then to NOT assign them any DNS Servers.
>
> DRG2003@mail.com (Daniel Guest) wrote in news:460b490.0207132142.23fbab55
> @posting.google.com:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have a small home network with a Linksys 4 port router. Currently I
> > have the router configured so that 2 out of the 4 computers have no
> > Internet access at all. However, I would like to configure the router
> > so that 2 of the computers can only access the internet using Norton
> > Antivirus Liveupdate to update virus definitions, and the other two
> > can access the internet fully.
> >
> > Basically I want all Internet access blocked but Symantec Liveupdate
> > on the two computers, and full normal Internet access on the other
> > computers. All of the computers are curretly hooked up to the Linksys
> > 4 port router, but I also have an ethernet hub I could use if
> > necessary.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Dan
> >
>
>