Richie Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 I'm currently running Windows XP home edition and I've found the only way, so far, to host a TCP/IP game is to turn off the Windows XP internal firewall. How do I configure my system so I don't need to do this? I've been getting away with it for a while but I was wormed 2 days ago with formatting HD results. Sheesh! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 Use the freeware version of Zone Alarm instead. There are some other software firewalls you can use too. With these you can block out most of the unwanted traffic, but setup CM to be a host and client. For other firewalls you can specify CM's access as TCP Port 7023 (bi-directional). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Posted March 5, 2004 Author Share Posted March 5, 2004 I've tried this with McAfee's Firewall from their antivirus v6 but I'm still unable to host without the XP firewall turned off. Apparently it's not stopped a worm even when everything is set to filter with the port configured to 7023. I've had zone alarm on before, a couple of years ago. What makes this better? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWB Posted March 5, 2004 Share Posted March 5, 2004 Can't say exactly as I have no experience with McAfee. But I never had an incident when I was using ZA as my firewall, and I hosted quite a bit of TCP games. WWB PS: What is the worm in question? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Posted March 5, 2004 Author Share Posted March 5, 2004 I really don't know. It came up as " Narshi"... maybe? It deleted my favourites and I connected to microsoft but they told me I had no virus after checking my system. McAfees instructed me to delete files and I did. I updated there aswell. I restored XP but that didn't help and as I ran Nero to back up my files. It got slower and slower. In the end nothing would open from my desktop and little from my start menu so I deleted the partition and formated my hard disc to save it, I had backed up my files to a large extent on the 25th Feb so loss and damage was minimal in the end... really. What was it, I can't say for sure. But if you play on the Net, don't leave home without your firewall. :mad: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefish Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 Originally posted by Richie: I'm currently running Windows XP home edition and I've found the only way, so far, to host a TCP/IP game is to turn off the Windows XP internal firewall.How do you turn off the xp firewall? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefish Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 I got it here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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