avast firewall blocking media server

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I’ve been having problems since I upgrade to Windows 8 with media servers, where no device could find my media server at all. I finally realised last week that the problem is the Avast Firewall (I’m guessing the Avast update that caused this was around the same time I upgraded to Windows 8). I now have to turn off the firewall to use the media server.

Does anybody know a way to exclude the media server from the firewall? Cheers.

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Look in the firewall log file to see what it has blocked and set the appropriate rule for it.
If I remember correctly there are other posts on this webboard that are explaining it.
Please use the search option.

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Hi,

do you have your firewall set to home network? And what media servers do you have installed?