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scaa
December 6th, 2007, 10:47 PM
It is said that firewall and antivirus should be disabled while installing new software. Is disabling real time protection in av and allowing all traffic in firewall enough ?
Will any legit software installed be allowed by the firewall in automatic mode ? ???

WSFuser
December 6th, 2007, 11:52 PM
In automatic mode, iirc, all outgoing traffic is allowed. It still stealths your ports and blocks inbound though.

BTW, leaving your AV/FW on while installing programs should be fine.