Port Forwarding difficulty with uTorrent
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I had various problems getting utorrents to work. I then found I actually had a 2wire router/modem which had its own firewall. I had to not only create a port in Norton av firewall, Windows firewall, but also in the 2wire firewall. It was only when all 3 had enabled ports that it worked. Even though I have Windows firewall off and use Norton's, utorrents wouldn't work until the windows firewall also had a created port.
The 2wire firewall, Gateway, had to be reconfigured to allow a port, netbios inbound/outbound, disabled stealth mode, and allowed Ping.
My big mistake was that I thought by blocking utorrents from Norton and Windows Firewalls and closing the ports I was secure, but I wasn't. I found that my security had been breached due to not securing the 2wire router/modem. I had visitors and it made a big mess which I am still trying to resolve. Lesson learned the hard way.
Lion:
Wow, I may not be able to handle all these security problems. Thank you WandaAnn very much for the warnings. Good to know that no-CD cracks do not need torrenting....(have been procrastinating on the SecuRom cleansing)
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Quote from: Lion on 2008 July 18, 16:11:56
Wow, I may not be able to handle all these security problems. Thank you WandaAnn very much for the warnings.
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to handle it. Big thing is to put it back the way it was before as soon as possible. I even called my internet support tech, kicked me up to level 4 support, to make sure my 2wire was secure again. Hmmm, maybe I should have attended to the 2wire more quickly. I did have a nagging type feeling about it. A router/modem does complicate things, takes more time when it comes to utorrents, but had I been more aware, I would not have had those visitors and my pc security messed up.
Makes me wonder how well of a job a typical firewall, such as Norton or Windows, provides in protection.
morriganrant:
I had been wondering how to juice up security a bit as well. We may be switching to Cox cable soon because it is financially beneficial for us, but Cox is anal about pirates to the point where they send out warnings for people watching streamed movies online. I've head tale of them getting huffy with torrenting as well, and now I actually need to go about hiding myself better.
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Quote from: morriganrant on 2008 July 18, 19:22:21
I had been wondering how to juice up security a bit as well. We may be switching to Cox cable soon because it is financially beneficial for us, but Cox is anal about pirates to the point where they send out warnings for people watching streamed movies online. I've head tale of them getting huffy with torrenting as well, and now I actually need to go about hiding myself better.
When I had to contact the internet tech support about the 2wire, the guy asked why I fooled around with the 2wire to begin with. I sheepishly told him that it was to use utorrents and expected a huge lecture on the evils of shareware and problems that can be caused. Instead he was asking me questions about how to use torrents, what site I use, and how good are the files I've downloaded. This was a far cry from the lecture I expected.
I am sure that you would get better security by switching. My dsl 2wire is giving me the most security and protection, compared to av firewall, due to being in 'stealth mode' and being as the tech said "invisible" on line.
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