Glimmer Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 My firewall keeps blocking attempts by Utorrent to send emails, roughly every 6 hours of use. Any idea what is causing this and why the program would even have a built in email function in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0rn Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?t=1568&highlight=emails Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Nothing like the many false positives some firewalls give Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glimmer Posted October 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 I'm using Zone Alarm and the port I have set is in the 5 digit range. I'll try a different one and see if that makes a difference. It would seem that if it was being caused by a bad port choice it would occur much more frequently than is currently occuring. Other Bit torrent apps I have on the same port are not causing the alarms to appear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micke Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 I'm using Zone Alarm and the port I have set is in the 5 digit range. I'll try a different one and see if that makes a difference. It would seem that if it was being caused by a bad port choice it would occur much more frequently than is currently occuring. Other Bit torrent apps I have on the same port are not causing the alarms to appear.Its not your choice of port thats causing it, its someone that you are either downloading from or uploading to that has choosen a port like 25 or 110 wich triggers the firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Yeah, ZA has never asked me about sending e-mails so its someone with port 25 or 110. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r00ted Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Switch to Windows Firewall.It just (doesn't) works. Maybe it works? Maybe it doesn't.Atleast it doesn't nag me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikul_Man Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Forget about software firewall. Just buy yourself a router instead.........(if you can afford it). .... :idea: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creed Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Forget about software firewall. Just buy yourself a router instead.........(if you can afford it)You are joking, right...What about stuff sending out ?You need a Router and a Software firewall in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfire Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Software firewalls are worthless since they can't perform the important task of making your computer unreachable. When a software firewall actually takes action, the connection to your computer has been made already, and whoever is on the other end already knows something is there. Software firewalls exist only to let people who understand little about the internet and networking sleep a little better at night under the illusion that their computer is protected. You're much better off heading down to your local computer store and buying a NAT-enabled router, since when configured properly (translation: NOT DMZ'ing your internal IP) it serves as a much better defense against attacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Forget about software firewall. Just buy yourself a router instead.........(if you can afford it)You are joking, right...What about stuff sending out ?You need a Router and a Software firewall in my opinion.By the time something harmful gets to your system if you have a router, it can already disable the software firewall.The viruses that aren't blocked by the router come by e-mail or websites. If you have a router, you only need to worry about those two sources.Sure, for people on dialup it's fine, but for broadband, the amount of additional processing done by a software firewall slows everything down.I'd use a router over any software firewall (ESPECIALLY ZoneAlarm) any day of the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 But you shouldn't just use an firewall router, you also need an software firewall in my opinion.You still need something that allows what programs should be allowed to have acces to internet(+detailed instruction of what they are allowed to do), stealth, stop trojan traffic + routers cant tell what programs an attack is made against.There are more things why you also need an software firewall, but I'm to lazy to write them down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keloran Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 my cisco firewall keeps me clean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r00ted Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Forget about software firewall. Just buy yourself a router instead.........(if you can afford it)You are joking, right...What about stuff sending out ?You need a Router and a Software firewall in my opinion.The "stuff sending out" can be easily disabled by the program doing the sending Most "hacker" apps I've seen auto-kill most protection software......BTW, my linksys router was 50$ at Walmart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 r00ted, when I get my new internet I have to go out and buy my own stuff, would you say linksys is reliable and fast? Ive seen the speedboster for some routers, does that acually make it faster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Speedbooster is some proprietary technology they have to speed up wireless connections. I do believe the wireless adapter has to support it for it to work, so it's pretty worthless. Besides that, Linksys routers are quite good, especially if you use the alternative firmwares. Just make sure you don't end up with a V5 if you pick up a WRT54G. (hardware revisions)WRT54GS is good to get, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 That's a good question, WinMX_67. I'd also like to hear what people here would recommend as a good "Torrent Router". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 I do have to mention, the default Linksys firmware limits the router to 1024 max connections, so you'll have to switch to an alternative firmware (such as HyperWRT, get the latest versions from the forums) to change that limit. I have it set to 4096 on mine, though I haven't actually gotten past 800 connections or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 So then 1024 would be ok right? How many torrents did you have loaded to get 800 connections? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 I'd say 1000 would be a safe limit (to leave connections for browsing and whatnot) on the default firmware.I had... maybe 7-8 torrents running at once? a few had decent sized swarms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Yeah, I never really have more than 3 torrents in uTorrent. If I seem to have problems after I get my router I will ask . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSISagent Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 nevermind. cool guy below proved that he's the greatest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfire Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 If you bothered reading the entire thread you would know that it's a false alarm that ZoneAlarm gives. My advice is for you to uninstall ZA and get a real firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 Consider old Kerio 2.1.5 ...EDIT by silverfire: Please do not quote posts directly before yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 Switch to Windows Firewall.It just (doesn't) works. Maybe it works? Maybe it doesn't.Atleast it doesn't nag me True, that's why I use Windows Firewall, I'm not concerned about software firewalling at all, so I just leave it turned on so that the Security Center doesn't bother me.. What about stuff sending out ?Well, first of all, I like to think I have the computer savvy to know "what not to run". Additionally, a router will protect you from any inbound connections unless you manually port forward or use UPnP. (Hint: Turn off UPnP unless you really need it..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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