Re: Tutorial for Kerio 2.1.5 ?

From: Alan Illeman (illemann_at_surfbest.net)
Date: 05/17/04


Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 13:26:32 -0400


"Nick H" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:pNRpc.544$eP6.197@newsfe1-gui.server.ntli.net...
[snip]
>>V2.1.5, which I run, is well regarded. V4.x.x is slated as still being
>>very buggy.

I appeared on this scene only a few months ago (upgraded to Win2K
from Win95) and purchased KPF4, only to find out later that KPF2.1.5
is a far superior product.

> KPF needs a bit more
> understanding but it is much more powerful (that is ZA Free vs KPF
> Free). If Jackeline is concerned about which programs are allowed to
> dial out, a router is not going to help. I run WinME, but in WinXP,
> should svchost.exe be allowed to dial out? If so, should it be
> restricted to certain servers or ports for its time synchronisation
> function, or is it safe to give it unrestricted access (probably not).

It's ok for svchost to listen (UDP), it will whether you set a rule or not,
but you have to set a rule that denies any TCP input to svchost. Also set
similiar rules for SYSTEM
and MSTASK.



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