This weekend I just installed mcAfee personal firewall 2004+ at home, and I'm having some problems with it.
Till now I was using the mcAfee firewall that came bundled with VirusScan 6 and though it was doing it's job, some times my port 135 was left open (don't know why) wich isn't that good at all and since in that firewall I can't find a way to manually block a specific port (is there any?) I decided moving to 2004+.
And I was feeling happy about it, since I can block specific ports, the only thing I was missing in the older one. Then I started making some tests to see how it would perform.
Tested a ORION webserver and some P2P sharing programs and it gave no problems at all. Also tryed a J2EE server and the clients could access it also.
Then I tryed a FTP Server and mIRC (the most common irc client), the ftp server seemed to be working ok, but after around 5 minutes all the transfers to the clients keeps stoping and they have to login again (though the user stays connected, just no transfer at all). Also in mIRC I could login to the servers, but after around 15 minutes I kept getting disconnected.
I thought this have something to do with my machine not allowing ICMP ping requests, but I made sure I checked that option in the firewall. In irc is noticeable since the server keeps pinging you from time to time to check the connection state and it shows in mIRC's main screen when it does and your machine answers it, I can see it pinging me 2-3 times and after that it just stops pinging me ( or my machine stops answering it I don't know).
And I can't see any accessing blocked attempts in the firewall log from my ftp clients IP or the IRC servers I tryed to connect.
So, basically this thing is giving me a hard time. I did the same tests with the old mcAfee firewall and I got no problems at all, in fact if I could manually block ports in that firewall I might keep that one.
Anyone has experienced a situation like this or have an idea on what the problem might be?
I'm running Windows XP Pro with SP1 and all current critical updates.
TIA
Till now I was using the mcAfee firewall that came bundled with VirusScan 6 and though it was doing it's job, some times my port 135 was left open (don't know why) wich isn't that good at all and since in that firewall I can't find a way to manually block a specific port (is there any?) I decided moving to 2004+.
And I was feeling happy about it, since I can block specific ports, the only thing I was missing in the older one. Then I started making some tests to see how it would perform.
Tested a ORION webserver and some P2P sharing programs and it gave no problems at all. Also tryed a J2EE server and the clients could access it also.
Then I tryed a FTP Server and mIRC (the most common irc client), the ftp server seemed to be working ok, but after around 5 minutes all the transfers to the clients keeps stoping and they have to login again (though the user stays connected, just no transfer at all). Also in mIRC I could login to the servers, but after around 15 minutes I kept getting disconnected.
I thought this have something to do with my machine not allowing ICMP ping requests, but I made sure I checked that option in the firewall. In irc is noticeable since the server keeps pinging you from time to time to check the connection state and it shows in mIRC's main screen when it does and your machine answers it, I can see it pinging me 2-3 times and after that it just stops pinging me ( or my machine stops answering it I don't know).
And I can't see any accessing blocked attempts in the firewall log from my ftp clients IP or the IRC servers I tryed to connect.
So, basically this thing is giving me a hard time. I did the same tests with the old mcAfee firewall and I got no problems at all, in fact if I could manually block ports in that firewall I might keep that one.
Anyone has experienced a situation like this or have an idea on what the problem might be?
I'm running Windows XP Pro with SP1 and all current critical updates.
TIA