Re: Changed ZA settings on the recommendations of AVG

Kerodo wrote:

In article <xn0ejc8433t62h005@xxxxxxxxx>, VSRawat@xxxxxxxxxxxx
says...
Having Zone Alarm free 6.1.737.0 on XPsp2, and AVG Antivirus
free edition.

Reading the avg manual about firewall setting, I have done
the following changes in ZA:

a) Allowed:
1. AVG E-mail scanner,
2. AVG update downloader, and,
3. generic host processor for win32

to have access to "Server" for Trusted as well as Internet.
ZA had previously set those to "not-allowed".

There's no need to give any of those programs 'Server' rights
to the Internet. I would advise just giving them normal
outbound access to the Internet, not 'Server', set 'Server' to
Deny. Setting Server to Allow in the Internet Zone just let's
those programs listen for unsolicited inbound connections,
something which they don't need and which you don't want them
to have anyway, especially Svchost.Exe.

oh.

I have removed their "server" rights. thanks for the tip.

--
Rawat
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