How can I make MIRC client work through Windows Firewall?

[ady199]

Guys,

I'm trying to connect to IRC Servers using 'MIRC' - the program runs fine, but I have a feeling Windows Firwall is blocking he connection.

Can anyone please tell me how I can configure Windows Firewall to allow connections from the MIRC client.

Thanks in advance.

[+BudMan MVC]

vista's firewall by default does not block IRC and or most any outbound connections.. But quite a few virus scanners/security suites will lock access to the irc ports 6667-6669 etc..

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128834-c...rn/article.html

Windows Vista's half-cocked firewall

Outbound protection is…where?

In an e-mail, Rowan Trollope, Vice President of Consumer Engineering at Symantec, offered this interpretation: "We have discovered that though Vista's outbound firewall is 'on' by default, all outbound connects that do not match a rule are allowed. In the default configuration, there are no outbound 'block' rules, only allow rules. In other words, even though [the Windows Firewall outbound protection is] on, it is not doing anything."

What other software security type software are you running?

You can verify what outbound ports are blocked by running wf.msc

Edited March 24, 2007 by BudMan

[ady199]

  BudMan said:

vista's firewall by default does not block IRC and or most any outbound connections.. But quite a few virus scanners/security suites will lock access to the irc ports 6667-6669 etc..

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128834-c...rn/article.html

Windows Vista's half-cocked firewall

Outbound protection is…where?

In an e-mail, Rowan Trollope, Vice President of Consumer Engineering at Symantec, offered this interpretation: "We have discovered that though Vista's outbound firewall is 'on' by default, all outbound connects that do not match a rule are allowed. In the default configuration, there are no outbound 'block' rules, only allow rules. In other words, even though [the Windows Firewall outbound protection is] on, it is not doing anything."

What other software security type software are you running?

You can verify what outbound ports are blocked by running wf.msc

After futher investigations it looks like Norton AntiVirus was blocking the connection - All sorted now.

Thanks again

[+BudMan MVC]

  ady199 said:

Hi,

I'm also running Norton Antivirus 2007 - would that be blocking it??

Thanks again

More than likely you sure could. I know for example the mcafee stuff blocks IRC ports by default.. So unless you told windows to block it the first time you fired up mirc.. then its something else blocking - I would guess your Norton..