On Jun 27, 2007, at 12:40 PM, John Francis wrote: >> How does your software discriminate between an authorized connection >> to a new destination initiated from inside the firewall and an >> "unrecognised" connection? What are the criteria it uses as a >> distinction? > > There are rules; some come with the firewall, some I created, and > some were set up the first time a particular connection was initiated. > For example: > > o IE and Firefox are allowed to connect to anywhere on port 80. > > o SecureCRT is allowed to connect anywhere over SSH sockets. > > o Visual Studio is allowed to connect to the MS Update site.
Thanks. That's pretty much as I figured and Adam mentioned. Still a pain. I have a lot more things than IE and Firefox, SecureCRT, etc, that connect to the world outside. Nothing comes in unbidden. Happily, I need not worry about it at present. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
