Help - problem with Norton Personal Firewall
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 9:40 pm
today something strange happened all of the sudden.
no communication available, cannot get into any website, email not working from 2 different POP3 servers, but is working on the university's POP3 server, the university is also my ISP. also Norton Live Update is working.
i tracked it down to the Norton Personal Firewall (2002). when i disable this everything seems to work fine.
after some digging this is what i've come up with: when theh firewall is enabled and i try to get into cdrlabs.com, it doesn't work, the firewall statistics page shows an outbound blocked TCP connection, under Firewall Rules it appears to be blocked by Rule354.
wtf is Rule354???
going to Norton Personal Firewall -> Personal Firewall pane -> Internet Access Control -> Configure button -> System-Wide Settings, i find Rule354. double clicking on it, it appears that this rule:
Blocks Internet access; blocks Connections to and from other comuters; Any computer; TCP and UDP protocols, All types of communications (all ports, local and remote).
if i understand rightly, this rule (when active) blocks all and any TCP commnucations!!! wtf???
if i uncheck this rule things seem to be back to normal.
any idea what this rule is, why is it here, what is it for, anything?
what happened all of a sudden? this morning everything was working A-OK!
any help much appreciated.
no communication available, cannot get into any website, email not working from 2 different POP3 servers, but is working on the university's POP3 server, the university is also my ISP. also Norton Live Update is working.
i tracked it down to the Norton Personal Firewall (2002). when i disable this everything seems to work fine.
after some digging this is what i've come up with: when theh firewall is enabled and i try to get into cdrlabs.com, it doesn't work, the firewall statistics page shows an outbound blocked TCP connection, under Firewall Rules it appears to be blocked by Rule354.
wtf is Rule354???
going to Norton Personal Firewall -> Personal Firewall pane -> Internet Access Control -> Configure button -> System-Wide Settings, i find Rule354. double clicking on it, it appears that this rule:
Blocks Internet access; blocks Connections to and from other comuters; Any computer; TCP and UDP protocols, All types of communications (all ports, local and remote).
if i understand rightly, this rule (when active) blocks all and any TCP commnucations!!! wtf???
if i uncheck this rule things seem to be back to normal.
any idea what this rule is, why is it here, what is it for, anything?
what happened all of a sudden? this morning everything was working A-OK!
any help much appreciated.