Re: Kerio Personal Firewall and connection that I don't understand...

From: Felix Tiede (tiede_at_pc-tiede.de)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:11:53 +0200

Francesco wrote:
>
>> The file you mention is the Graphic User Interface part of Kerio 4,
>> you need to 'allow' it accesss.
>>
>
> My doubts are about why the firewall asks me what to do about something
> that's directly correlated with itself. Why this access are not allowed
> by default?
>
> Checco
>
This access comes from outside of your system. No good firewall will ever
allow incoming connections by default. Regardless of which application is
about to answer the connection.
It would only allow it, if the connection comes from within the same machine.

Greetings,
Felix

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