Re: Blocking AOL chat without blocking AOL webmail

From: Vanguardx (see_signature)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:07:15 -0500

"bruce" <blittle2@nyc.rr.com>
wrote in news:4b56962f.0410281331.1c8cdb52@posting.google.com:
> Hello,
>
> I'm volunteer-consulting for a small nonprofit and the boss there
> wants to cut down on the chatting. Because of budgeting issues we are
> not using a third party firewall as of yet, so we are using the
> built-in Firewall of Windows 2000.
>
> In our first attempt, we blocked port 5190 this seems to have worked
> as far as stopping the chat however some employees were having trouble
> accessing the AOL webmail including the Executive Director of the
> organization who happens to send a lot of her work from home to the
> office via aol's webmail.
>
> Is there a way to refine my firewall settings so that traffic going to
> the aol.com page and then to the log-on of webmail will not be blocked
> or slowed down all the while aim is still blocked? Is this possible?

Check the firewall's logfile (for the Windows Firewall, the default
location is C:\WINDOWS\pfirewall.log). It should show the connections.
Maybe the AOL prattle client connects to a specific server name (by IP
address) that you could block using TCP filtering under the advanced
options for your LAN connectoid's TCP protocol.

Sounds like it would be far easier to use one of the freebie software
firewalls, like Sygate (smb.sygate.com) or ZoneAlarm, if your use
doesn't violate their terms of use. 

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