Opening winamp3, I recieve an OP pop-up about a connection to ads.web.aol.com HTTP outbound TCP, so I make a rule to DENY the connection. The same pop-up comes up again asking what to do about the connection, so I make a new rule to REJECT it. With both of these rules, the same pop-up comes up asking what to do with the connection. This is the log from Allowed:
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Undefined Rule STUDIO.EXE ads.web.aol.com HTTP Outbound TCP
What is the differnece between deny and reject? With both of them, should I not get this pop-up? Why is the log saying that it is an Undefined Rule?
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I have only tried this with Winamp3.
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Hi Zero-Point and root,
See this thread too. I have a feeling that you are getting multiple popups for the same rule because the application is sending connection request packets faster than you can keep up. If that is so, the only thing you can do is to shut down the application, finish dealing with the rule popups, and then go back in the Outpost GUI and manually modify the rules to remove redundant entries.
Another user had a similar problem with a different application and you can read my advice in this thread:
http://www.outpostfirewall.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4070
By the way, if you want to remain stealth, select Deny It when setting your rules. You could block HTTP entirely for WinAmp unless it is used to update the application. If you want, I can recommend a rule set up that will block all sites BUT the sites used for updates. Let me know. :)
umm, no comment :)
Will do from now on. Rebooting at first seemed to fix the problem, but then it (the ads.web.aol.com connection) wasn't showing up in the logs, so I rebooted again.
DOH! Still not blocking it, but it is blocking it. What I mean is that I get a pop-up asking what to do, but when I check the Blocked log it shows:
Winamp3 ads.web.aol.com Deny STUDIO.EXE ads.web.aol.com n/a Unknown TCP
Is it cause it's showing an unknown port and direction? I am denying outgoing HTTP.
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Edit: The Allowed log shows:
Undefined Rule STUDIO.EXE ads.web.aol.com HTTP Outbound TCP
OK, what I have done is closed down winamp after "making" the rules so that they no longer came up. I then shutdown Outpost and reloaded it went into the winamp rules and deleted all of the redundant entries leaving only ads.web.aol.com HTTP TCP outbound denied (for stealth purposes). I reloaded outpost because it would not work.
I opened Winamp back up and still asks about the connection.
I also replaced that rule with rejected instead of deny and still doesn't work.
I guess I could try to reboot and see what happens. Ya never know with MS.
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Hi Zero-Point,
See this thread:
http://www.outpostfirewall.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1322
Are you saving copies of good configurations before starting up another app?
By doing that, you can save yourself a lot of heartache.
First three rules of computing, 1 backup, 2 backup, 3 backup.
Hi,
as far as I understand deny is for outbound and reject for inbound. Am I right? At least I explain it in this way for my self.
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Deny is to drop the packets thus retaining stealth status. Reject is to send a message back rejecting the packets, thus no stealth.
0, you might try downloading the latest ad blocking file from Erics site. http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#Outpost
Read the directions if you haven't done it before.
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