Author Topic: Modem Question (Read 1057 times)

Cody · « **on:** April 29, 2007, 08:34:14 PM »

It's prolly a noob question but there's this option in my cable modem to enable/disable firewall. If I disable it would it open any ports?

Ph33r · « **Reply #1 on:** April 30, 2007, 01:51:22 AM »

Ports as in? And if you disable your firewall, you potentially open your gates wide to viruses and hackers.. Best not to do that..

Aries · « **Reply #2 on:** April 30, 2007, 03:02:07 AM »

Well you can have a modem firewall and a software firewall, you don't need both...

So yeah disable it just make sure you have a software firewall like Zone Alarm or something.

Cody · « **Reply #3 on:** April 30, 2007, 04:03:01 AM »

Quote from: Aries

Well you can have a modem firewall and a software firewall, you don't need both...

So yeah disable it just make sure you have a software firewall like Zone Alarm or something.

But does it open any ports? If it doesn't open any I don't need to disable it.

RAD · « **Reply #4 on:** April 30, 2007, 04:06:23 AM »

Disabling it wont open any ports, that will only happen if you have either a trojan, or a specific application running like a Web server (Apache) that needs certain ports to be open. But having it enabled may close or stealth block commonly abused ports on some routers.

Unless having it enabled sacrifices your bandwidth, or is causing problems for p2p apps or online games, best leave it enabled IMO.

Cody · « **Reply #5 on:** April 30, 2007, 04:07:46 AM »

Quote from: RAD

Disabling it wont open any ports, that will only happen if you have either a trojan, or a specific application running like a Web server (Apache) that needs certain ports to be open. But having it enabled may close or stealth block commonly abused ports on some routers.

Unless having it enabled sacrifices your bandwidth, or is causing problems for p2p apps or online games, best leave it enabled IMO.

Oh ok thanks rad.