Playing D3 on Windows 10 with built in firewall- outbound blocked unless allowed by a rule.
Allow port 1119, 3724 works, but I don't want to leave those ports open to all traffic and I can't quite nail the rules to get it to work (I must be missing a file location somewhere). Would be fine with or without the port 80 content displayed in battlenet app.
Anyone have a set of rules that works that you could export and copy and paste here? I understand they will change (file locations) the next time battlenet updates (why Blizz, why?!?). Thanks.
I want to block outbound traffic mainly for privacy/security reasons.
For example, I don't trust Microsoft not to collect my private information or to properly guard the information that they do collect. Also, I know that occasionally I might pick up a trojan, etc. that will attempt to "phone home" or try to communicate out to install more malicious software, etc. Many other reasons that I don't have time to go into, but I'm sure you get the idea. If you are not very familiar with firewalls I wouldn't recommend it. I would probably tell that person to buy an automatic firewall and make sure that you tell it that D3 in all its multiple files/locations is a program that will make frequent changes.
Yes, I started there. It's useful in the listing of ports that a program *might* use, although there is some bad information there and it assumes that the user allows everything out (which from a security standpoint is less-than-ideal).
Playing D3 on Windows 10 with built in firewall- outbound blocked unless allowed by a rule.
Allow port 1119, 3724 works, but I don't want to leave those ports open to all traffic and I can't quite nail the rules to get it to work (I must be missing a file location somewhere). Would be fine with or without the port 80 content displayed in battlenet app.
Anyone have a set of rules that works that you could export and copy and paste here? I understand they will change (file locations) the next time battlenet updates (why Blizz, why?!?). Thanks.
"Son, you got a panty on your head..."
Don't you have a router with build in firewall?
And why do you want to block outbound traffic?
Did you try these settings?
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/configuring-router-and-firewall-ports
It never hurts to help!!!
My router does indeed have a limited built-in firewall and I block a few things from there.
I want to block outbound traffic mainly for privacy/security reasons.For example, I don't trust Microsoft not to collect my private information or to properly guard the information that they do collect. Also, I know that occasionally I might pick up a trojan, etc. that will attempt to "phone home" or try to communicate out to install more malicious software, etc. Many other reasons that I don't have time to go into, but I'm sure you get the idea. If you are not very familiar with firewalls I wouldn't recommend it. I would probably tell that person to buy an automatic firewall and make sure that you tell it that D3 in all its multiple files/locations is a program that will make frequent changes.
Yes, I started there. It's useful in the listing of ports that a program *might* use, although there is some bad information there and it assumes that the user allows everything out (which from a security standpoint is less-than-ideal)."Son, you got a panty on your head..."
"Son, you got a panty on your head..."