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No, avast for Kerio is for Kerio MailServer or Winroute. It doesn’t make any sense to install it on your machine…

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OK Vlk thanks. I am going to have to do something about this because I just phoned my ISP and they told me “we don’t block any ports on our server because it causes problems with our customers”. So Port 135 must be wide open. And I’m running Windows XP so a lot of these fixes won’t work and I don’t want to go fiddling with the registry unless it’s essential. A lot of that Microsoft page was way over my head and I only understood the bit about editing the registry.

Looks as if blocking it is something I should do with the registry rather than the Kerio firewall but I still need to know how to add these things to the Kerio firewall settings and see if that fixes it. Off to Kerio now and if anyone here has the answer to that one, I’d very much appreciate your assistance:)

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Found this at the Kerio forum:-

http://forums.kerio.com/index.php?t=msg&goto=4190&S=57567ebfaa0646e48243ee6fce468b26#msg_4190

Will try that and let you know how I get on:)

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OK I figured out how to block ports for Kerio and for good measure added Ports 137-139 to the list - I just blocked incoming for the moment and we’ll see what happens. If necessary I can block incoming and outgoing.

I’ve reset Avast to produce alerts so I will know if this is working or not.

Thanks guys!

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Sygate Firewall worked for me…

I stopped getting that kind of messages and closed two ports that were open.

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All fixed and no more alerts. Thanks everyone!

Might be useful to know what Avast is blocking in the Network Shield that it doesn’t protect you from in the standard virus protection, so that potential problems can be ruled out in future. - I mean it might be helpful to know what it’s blocking so that you have some idea what you haven’t got!

Also I thought it wasn’t a good idea to run two firewalls at once? I know that’s not what you’re suggesting Tulio, I’m concerned at the idea of a second firewall within Avast. If it’s here to stay you guys will presumably be enhancing it in future and in that case are there likely to be potential conflicts with the main firewalls?

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Can you see? http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=8831;start=msg73303#msg73303

Network Shield is not a firewall and won’t conflict with Windows internal firewall and/or thirdy party ones.

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OK thanks!

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thx for the tip, i’d search where was the option for disabling this, but without success; i had the same problem, since the last avast update (1 hour ago), and all those infos were becomming annoying (considering that my system seems safe and that i check various things frequently)

As a sidenote, since i’ve discovered avast home ed. a few months ago, i’ve installed it on many computers, and would like to thank the people here who have made / contributed to such a good product.

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Your regular firewall should have the option to add ports you want blocked to its list of protections. That’s what I did and it worked a treat.

I’ve actually left the alerts back on now so that if something starts coming through that I need to block certain ports I can do so quickly:) frankly I’d rather know about these things than not.

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I tried to use DCOMbobulator to limit attacks on port 135, but they continue to happen.
Why does it happen?

Dcombobulator is supposed to disable DCOM, so I shouln´t be getting the warnings, do I ?

When I disabled the firewall I kept getting the annoying attack warnings from avast.

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Why does it happen?
It happens because there are unfortunatly a lot of people who didn't protected their system (correctly) and now have infected systems. Only way to stop the intrusion aatacks on your system is making every system in the world free from malware.
I tried to use DCOMbobulator to limit attacks on port 135
No need to use that. A good firewall and Avast is enough.
kept getting the annoying attack warnings from avast.
Why not just disable the warnings in the on-access control panle under the network shield provider?
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I want to know if I would get a good result (not getting the warnings) without the need of installing a firewall.
That´s why I tried to use DCOMbobulator, since the warnings say DCOM Exploit on
135.
WHY??? WHy DCOMbob doesn´t help me with that Exploit!?!?!?! Why!?!? :-[ :-\