My PC is safe after using Fiddlercap track?
I have a problem with Hotmail which is currently examined by the Windows Live Help Center. To help, I took a record for them of the fault using Fiddlercap. To use Fiddlercap, my spyware protection had to allow Fiddlercap & unlock access to Fiddlercap, I duly did. I understand I can have created a 'port' for the access to the place & I'm afraid now that I made my pc less secure. Is that all I have to do to close the port or make sure that my pc is also protected as it was? Thanks for any help or advice, you can provide.
Hello
You can disable the exception to the firewall for Fiddlercap and that should take care of any issue.
Do the same for everything what you allow to you, spyware.
How to add or remove an Exception in the Windows Vista firewall
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/65334-Windows-Firewall.html
How to turn on the firewall enabled or disabled in Vista Windows
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/92697-Windows-Firewall-off.html
Check for Open Ports
http://www.canyouseeme.org/
Port Forwarding test - lower right Scan All Common ports
http://www.YouGetSignal.com/tools/open-ports/
Port Scanner / "sniffers"
http://www.whatsmyip.org/ports/
Detective - free shipping
http://www.portdetective.com/
ShieldsUp
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
CurrPorts - free - CurrPorts is network monitoring software which displays a list of all the
currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list.
information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process
name full path of the process, the version information of the process (the product name, the file
Description and so on), when the process was created, and the user who created it.
http://www.NirSoft.NET/utils/cports.html
If the Windows Live troubleshooting Center asked you to perform this action, on what they should also advise
How to reverse everything they ask.
I hope this helps.
Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP - Windows Expert - consumer: bike - Mark Twain said it right.
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