Hello, everyone! I’ve been an avast! user for nearly two years now, and while I love the program and haven’t had any problems with it, I’m now coming across a little something that’s making me incredibly frustrated.
I recently bought an iPad and I’m trying to set up home sharing for iTunes. However, no matter what I do, I just can’t seem to get it to work properly with my current settings.
I’m using the latest version of avast! Internet Security (6.0.1367). Windows firewall was disabled a long time ago, so I use avast! exclusively for my firewall and virus protection. Due to a nasty virus infection I got a few years ago, I’ve upped my security to “Public/High risk zone” just to be on the safe side. I should note that if I switch to “Home/Low risk zone”, I am able to use home sharing without any problems whatsoever. However, I want to be able to keep my current settings rather than having to switch back and forth every time I want to use home sharing.
I haven’t been able to find much information here on the forums, so I’m reaching out for some help; the only other topic I found listed the ports that iTunes uses to communicate between copies of iTunes, but I already added packet rules to allow connections to and from those ports. Also, I’ve made sure to list the iPad’s IP as a friend in the Expert Settings > Friends menu.
In “Packet Rules”, I made two new rules: the first, named “iPad”, is a TCP in/out connection that uses the local port 3689; the other rule, named “iPad2”, is a UDP in/out connection that uses the local port 5353. By reading through my firewall logs, I was able to see what the iPad’s remote port is, so I put that number in the “Remote port” boxes of both new rules I created, and I put the iPad’s IP address in the “Address” box.
However, this still didn’t work. After I created the new rules and tried the home sharing again, according to my firewall logs, avast! was still blocking the iPad. Even though the “Public/High risk zone” setting says that it will not allow any incoming connections to take place, shouldn’t it allow connections from trusted IPs, no matter what the security level? This is what’s confusing me - I’ve made sure to tell avast! that my iPad is a friendly computer, so why is it still actively blocking the iPad?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated! Thanks so much!