Re: Firefox and NoCat

Mathieu Bouchonnet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.nocat
Message-ID <20041112174440.43e5cdc8@mbouchonnet2>
Hi all, 

Le Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:14:17 -0500
"Scott Tully" <[email protected]> ecrivait:

> I have not had a response if this suggestion worked from the users >that complained - but this was my response to them:
i don't think so...

 
> Internet Explorer will authenticate successfully because it probably works with the other components of SP2, it's a "known"
> program. Maybe the SP2 Windows "firewall" is to blame. It probably allows IE to do things that other "programs" can't do...
> like access port 5280. IE is probably a "trusted" program by default :-o
Actually the SP2 firewall allows everything to go out, it just filters for the process acting as servers what can come in.

 
> If you have sp2 try turning off the windows "firewall"
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/internet/sp2_wfintro.mspx
> 
> Maybe add firefox to the exception list
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/internet/sp2_wfexceptions.mspx
> 
> Like i said - this is a guess on my part...  I am not about to install >SP2 to test it....

I am installing it right now (actually it began, 1 hour ago) to clear this issue, we heavyly insist on using firefox and using firewalls so it's could be a big issue here.

More as soon as I will be able to reproduce this...

Regards,
Mathieu Bouchonnet
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