Just an FYI - you can assign a range of ports within ICQ to use for
connections and open up only those ports in the firewall.
---mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 6:47 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: McAfee - Don't make the mistake I did...
>
>
> At 08:37 AM 6/8/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >I'm getting Zonealarm today. McAfee Firewall is a royal piece of
> dog crap.
> >First, it drained my graphics memory (I'm sure you've seen apps
> before that
> >have odd affects on the GUI), secondly it never remembered the apps I
> >trusted with net acces, thirdly, and this is a cardinal sin, the damn
> >'Firewall Status' window kept reappearing even after I closed the window,
> >and lastly, it absolutely would not let ICQ out.
>
> You might remember that while I was living in my best friend's house I
> wasn't able to send files to you through ICQ and I had serious
> issues even
> getting messages out. I think we both had to send through the server to
> talk to each other. That was a firewall issue and that firewall
> was set up
> by a professional security admin. He managed to get ICQ reasonably stable
> but I couldn't connect directly to any linux or BSD users. ICQ is a mess.
>
> If I remember correctly, ICQ uses ranges of ports for each action and
> selects randomly from that range of ports for each time that you do
> something. That makes it almost impossible to predict which port will be
> used to send messages. In order to allow free use of ICQ, you may as well
> open every port in the firewall, which sorta defeats the purpose
> of having
> a firewall in the first place. It's one of the most problematic pieces of
> software to use through a firewall. But we love it anyway.
>
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