“Who knows what will stop working if I disable that?' Malware authors are sometimes counting on our reluctance to disable anything made to look like it’s related to Microsoft, Windows, or Internet Explorer. Not to mention all the (undoubtedly) confusing names. The method above can be rather painstaking, especially if you have a large amount of programs installed. Some programs can be trusted to run on your computer, but there might be no real reason for them to make outside connections. Effectively, you can check here if everything that has permissions to connect are programs you trust, or whether you actually feel that they need to have these permissions.

This requires Administrator rights and, after execution, you will see that the tick boxes are no longer grayed out. To get started, click the “Change settings” button. You can find the settings for the Windows firewall under Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Firewall > Allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall.ĭespite the title “Allow a program or feature …”, this is also the place where you can remove them from the list of allowed programs and features. While this may be true for the default settings when it comes to protection, how many who have heard this remark are able to check which programs have added themselves to the list of allowed programs? The one that comes with Windows is sufficient for home users”. Note: While Jungle Disk does make incoming connections, it only makes them from the Jungle Disk application (the GUI) to/from the Jungle Disk Service (background program) within your computer and only if you're using Jungle Disk Simply Backup, Desktop, or Jungle Disk (Formerly Workgroup).Show of hands-How many of you have heard someone say something like this: “You don’t need an extra firewall. We use ports 443 and 80 through your network for Outgoing traffic only, so if these are already open, no further actions are necessary.

In this situation, you can add our servers/ports as exceptions for your firewall so that the firewall allows these connections through your network. I have a network-based firewall and/or a firewall that does not allow program exceptions I have a software firewall program installed on my computerĪdd the Jungle Disk program to your Exceptions list for your Firewall.

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