Re: Need Help, Firewall not letting me access much of web

From: Ric Griffy (alakevue.at_at_tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 08/09/03 

Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:02:17 GMT

Have you tried opening port 113?
Try turning on some logging so that you can see what is being blocked.
Ric Griffy

"section8pidgeon" <section8pidgeon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:645e1648.0308090407.7446bf53@posting.google.com...
> Hi. I am running McAfee firewall and for the past 2 weeks or so,
> whenever I run the firewall in it's "Filter" mode, I can not access
> many websites, such as Ebay, Hotmail, etc. Instead, the browser
> hangs, then eventually I get the 'page not found' page. When I turn
> the firewall to the "Allow All" mode, suddenly everything runs fine
> and I can access those sites which were previously giving me trouble.
> It was never like this before. Up till about 2 weeks ago, I always
> had my firewall set to "Filter" and never had these problems. Then
> all of a sudden this whole problem. I'm hoping any of you guys have
> any ideas. Thanks in advance for any help.
>

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