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Old 10th April 2009 | 13:28
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Saab Dastard
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Did as you suggested, and came up "Failed" in big red letters for port 80 and 443. Now what?
Rossian,

I believe that what the "failure" means is that inbound requests over ports 80 and 443 (HTTP and HTTPS - standard WWW protocols) from the internet are being allowed through your firewall - you would normally only allow this if you had your own webserver inside your firewall.

If you haven't got a webserver then these should be closed.

Note that it is not the same as closing the ports for outbound requests - i.e. your PC making requests to webservers on the internet.

SD
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