Another idiot question

[Don]

I'm getting good at idiot questions.

My target system is getting viruses faster than I can delete them, so I though 'cool' I'll turn on the Wingate Firewall.

As soon as I enable it on any setting , my 'remote control' feature goes away. Can't get in via Gatekeeper and can't use VNC to get in, either. So I had the local people disable firewall and I got back on. I chose custom setting .. saw the ports I liked were open, added 808 and 5900-5910 (for VNC) and applied. I immediately lost Remote Control again.

When I looked at the CUSTOM settings, it looked pretty clear - firewall seemed to "understand" that all services specifically set up in Wingate were allowed and all others were denied .. so I thought adding 808 and 5900-5910 to be a simple fix

What did I miss?

[neil]

Do you need any UDP ports open as well? Also what was displayed in teh firewall tab after you tried to connect and got rejected?

Regards

Neil

[Don]

when the firewall is turned on, we can't even PING the outside ISP's name servers, so no outbound mail goes out. When firewall is OFF, we can ping just fine .... we just get more viruses that a $2 hooker