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How to block WCF services using Firewall or any other security setting

For an application testing purpose I want to know how to block applications that are trying host http WCF host services. Could someone please point me the right place to block? I've been guessing and ...
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How to whitelist an Amazon ELB in a(ny) firewall?

We have a customer with a very locked-down network. Any outbound connections require whitelisting of the port and IP address. However, we are running our system behind an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer ...
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Normalizing Windows Advanced Firewall rules

How can I best normalize our Windows Advanced Firewall rules while implementing network segmentation? I want them to be as clear and concise as possible for audit purposes. What few examples I've seen ...
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why blocking incoming traffic does not block chatting or VOIP

I just recently blocked all incoming traffic(all local ports and all external ips) in my windows 7 firewall and I understand that will not stop me from accessing websites as browsing needs outbound ...
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How to define different firewall rules for different users on the same machine running on Windows 7?

Provided that one machine running on Windows 7, connected to LAN, and connected to the Internet via a gateway in the LAN. There are two logon user accounts A and B on the machine. I want: 1, User A ...
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Windows Firewall accepts a three-second unicast response from any source

I have read this article but still has some doubts may be after that... The Windows Firewall feature in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP 2) accepts a three-second unicast response from ...
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windows firewall disabled with Norton Internet security or Norton Smart Firewall? [closed]

My Company decide to Change antiviruses and anti-spywares and firewalls. How to apply changes in all clients and servers safety? Norton say: ( in this article): When you are using Windows ...
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why Windows Firewall in XP cannot block outbound connections

wikipedia say: XP's Windows Firewall cannot block outbound connections; it is only capable of blocking inbound ones. another article says: XP defends you with your traffic coming from the web but ...
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Windows Firewall - how to block inbound for all .exe files in a folder

In Windows Firewall with Advanced Settings I can create a rule which blocks all inbound or outbound traffic for particular program by pointing to its .exe file. The problem is that this program has ...
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How did my homepage get changed in IE?

I have rarely used IE in the past. I just use it to test how a website looks. Today all of a sudden when I went on to open IE, it opened with a homepage that wasn't set by me. It was an address of a ...
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How to bypass firewall protection to hack windows server 2003? [closed]

I am trying to hack windows server 2003 sp2, i can see a lot of services running on target, there is also a lot of backdoors listing on ports like netbus, remote-everything .... But Firewall (as i ...
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windows firewall turns OFF automatically

It seems pretty weird but for some reason, the Windows 7 firewall turns off. After I turn the firewall on in the control panel, it seems that it turns itself off when I go back to the control after I ...
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How do you properly setup Tor on Windows 7?

How do you properly setup Tor on a Windows 7 box to guarantee that ALL connections will run through Tor?
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Should a host based firewall have an API accessible to other applications?

Some people are hesitant to use Windows Firewall because it allows software to alter its state via an API. The benefit of this is that the Firewall configuration can be centrally manged in GPO. On ...
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How do these Windows services affect the security of Windows Firewall?

Its common to disable unneeded services in Windows 2008 R2, but sometimes I come across installations that use Windows Firewall and related services. More info: see service dependencies for Windows ...
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How to trace a DDOS attack on a dedicated server and block it?

I have a dedicated server and I'm hosting a game, and the web page (using Apache) for account registering. The server is being ddosed since 8 months ago till today. I've tried to talk with the server ...
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windows security alert windows firewall has blocked some features of this program message coming for every new build of my application

I made an application which uses ftp so windows shows windows security alert windows firewall has blocked some features of this program message for every new version of my application any idea how to ...
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What is the background of the Reference Counter Overflow in Microsoft TCP/IP (MS11-083)?

How unique is this bug? Is there a more sophisticated and well-studied attempt behind? Is it accidence? The article below says "continouos stream to UDP". What stream? Just an hour stream of zeros? ...
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I'm having a DDoS attack, my hosting company is stupid, and I need to know what is hapening

So ok, right now my windows 2003 dedicated server is under attack by some guy who's flooding UDP packets (~90.000 packets/sec) on my 100Mbps server for the last 8 hours. I'm on a shared port, so I'm ...
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Is Windows Firewall suitable for running in a production environment?

Is Windows Firewall suitable for running as the sole protection on a production web server? Is it hardened enough? Robust enough? and tested enough? I'm running a VPS with Rackspace on their cloud ...
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What are the risks associated with relying on IPSec IP Filtering?

When using Windows IPSec for IP filtering whenever a filter is added you need to have a "mirror" rule (by checking the "Mirrored. Match packets..." tickbox). Because IPSec Filtering is not stateful, ...
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A firewall without any extra features

I have Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) installed on my system. I always keep it disabled, yet using a few practices, I kept my system virus free for years: I disabled autorun using these tricks; I ...
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What criteria do you use for evaluating Client-Side / Endpoint security products?

What features are important to you in client-side AV and Firewall products? Who benefits from these features? Managment, the end user, helpdesk. Are there features that are being 'sold' by the ...