That's precisely what I've done as my workaround.
Richard P.
While that would work, it is advised that doing so would
leave a security hole. There are some other, more
complicated workarounds/fixes which look promising. If
this isn't resolved soon, I may pursue them.
I don't normally suggest this(*), but why not just use the
firewall that comes with Windows? ZoneAlarm maybe be
better but it's currently broke...
* Suggest using something from MS...
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