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Questions tagged [windows-firewall]

Questions referring to the firewall that comes built-in with windows. Use this tag only when referring to the firewall that comes with Windows; Other firewalls that run on Windows should contain the two tags [windows] [firewall] instead.

Questions referring to the firewall that comes built-in with windows. Use this tag only when referring to the firewall that comes with Windows; Other firewalls that run on Windows should contain the two tags instead.

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How to fix bower ECMDERR

I'm using "yeoman" and "bower" on windows 7 but got the following error when I create the app yo webapp The error is bower not-cached git://github.com/jlong/sass-bootstrap.git#~3.0.0 bower resolve …
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Java 7 prevents FTP transfers on Windows Vista and 7 if firewall is on. Any ideas?

Java 7 prevents FTP transfers on Windows Vista and 7. In FTP, before a file is transferred a PORT or a PASV command must be sent. As soon as one of the commands is sent the Windows Firewall closes the socket that sent it. This only happens if the…
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Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

I recently installed MySQL 5 on Windows 2003 and tried configuring an instance. Everything worked fine until I got to "Applying Security settings", at which point it gave me the above error (Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)). I…
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Golang run on Windows without deal with the Firewall

I'm working on a Rest API with Go, but everytime I try to run my application with go run main.go the Windows Firewall tells me that has blocked some features of my app. I would like to know if there's some way to make my executions without have to…
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IIS server blocking access to .webp files

So I'm trying to add .webp image support for a WordPress site, which is run on IIS. Now the image exists on the server and the file name is correct but when I try to load the image via URL address in the browser I get the 404 error. 404 - File or…
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how to display "Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program" dialog for my app?

I'm developing .Net 4.0 C# Windows Forms app which hosts WCF service on some predefined port (let's say 12345). We have another iPad app which talks to this WCF service - and this connection is blocked by windows firewall. My users always have…
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How to check window's firewall is enabled or not using commands

I am adding a windows firewall rule using netsh advfirewall firewall command in a setup program. My code is giving an error message if the system has windows firewall disabled. So I need to check the window's firewall status before executing the…
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How to Add Outbound Windows Firewall Exception?

I need to open up the Windows Firewall for outbound connections for an application I'm writing. The best answers I've been able to locate are…
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What causes Windows Firewall to block an application?

I have a Windows Forms application that runs locally on the user's desktop. The only way it accesses the Internet is by doing System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(url) to launch the user's default browser and point it to various URLs (to check for…
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Run multiple sites from one IP in IIS

I have a box with Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7, and I'm using an ASP.NET app. I am trying to run multiple sites from one IP, but I can't access the sites from the outside. I can only access the Default website from outside but when I want to…
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ClickOnce applications and Windows Firewall

It appears to me that ClickOnce applications will not work smoothly with Windows Firewall. I have been successfully using ClickOnce deployments for two years. This has hit a stumbling block now the enterprise has upgraded to Windows 7. Each user's…
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Updating existing firewall rule using API

I am able to pro grammatically add individual rules to the Windows Firewall (Server 2008 R2), however I am trying to avoid multiple rules per IP address, and would just like to update the existing rule RemoteAddresses. Below is the code I am using…
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Is there a way to get all IP addresses of YouTube to block it with Windows Firewall?

I want to programme my own anti-distraction tool. I can not / do not want to use the hosts file or third-party apps. When using IPsec or Windows Firewall, it only accepts IP addresses. There is youtube.[264 TLD] www.youtube.[264 TLD]…
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All localhost pages via WAMP blocked?

I've been trying to fix a weird 403 Forbidden error I get when I try to go to one of my pages via WAMP on the localhost. After adding a rule to open up port 80 via Windows Firewall, which apache uses, I notice that this does NOT fix my problem and…
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Windows firewall rule for XP

How to programmatically add an application or port to Windows Firewall on Windows XP?
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