firewall alert

May 19, 2005 1 Replies

When Kerio tells me someone is trying to send my 'puter something, to a port owned by, say, DNSKong could it be from anyone or would it be from DNSKong people? Thanks for education.



In article , Ed Mc wrote: : When Kerio tells me someone is trying to send my 'puter something, :to a port owned by, say, DNSKong could it be from anyone or would it be :from DNSKong people? Thanks for education.

It could be from anywhere.

And if Kerio is anything like Mcafee's "firewall" built into their popular anti-virus product, then it could be complaining about responses to packets that -your- system legitimately sent out. If your system happened to dynamically allocate the port that corresponds to DNSKong, and sent a request to somewhere, then when the response came back, Mcafee would think it was being attacked.

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