Firewall Settings For Home Network
I am running 3 Windows 7 64-bit machines in a home network. 2 Laptops on WiFi, one desktop on LAN.
Internet connection is trough a router to a cable modem, to the outside world.
What is the recommended setting for:
Trust Level
Stealth Mode?
Do I need to consider zones?
An aside:
I installed BD2010 IS on the two laptops. I found it surprising that the automatic settings assigned by BD were different for the 2 laptops. The Trust/Stealth settings were set as Trusted Local/On for the first laptop and Unsafe/Off on the second one.... wierd. The only difference was that I was trialing BD antivirus on the first laptop and BD internet security on the second, prior to an upgrade to a full licensed install of BD internet security on both.
Comments
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Hello Roland,
On all of your computers please open BitDefender in *Expert Mode*,
choose the *Firewall *module and perform the following changes :
1. Select the *Network *tab in the upper menu and click on the current
"*Network Type*", pull down the drop-down menu and select "*Trusted
Local*", *Stealth *to "*No*" and *Generic *to "*Yes*".
2. In the *Zones *area please click on the "*+*" sign and add the IP
address of the local device that you are trying to connect to (i.e. router);
3. Please go to the *Status *tab, click on the "*Advanced Settings*"
button and check the option called "*Enable Internet Connection Sharing*" .
Last but not least I would recommend you to run THIS Uninstall tool to remove any traces of BitDefender Antivirus then re-install BitDefender Internet Security 2010.
Regards,0
