Where is exception in windows firewall

You may have your attention drawn to a program that the firewall has blocked by a pop-up window entitled 'Windows Security Alert' and given the choice to Keep Blocking, Unblock or Ask Me Later. If you do not recognise the program you should choose Keep Blocking. The program will be blocked from communicating with your computer and will be blocked without prompting if it tries to communicate in the future.

If you recognise the program and want to allow it to communicate choose Unblock. This creates an exception rule for it, which you can edit later as above. If you know which computers the program communicates with, you can edit the rule that has been created and change the scope to allow communication with specific computers only see above.

Ask Me Later does not allow the communication but will ask you again next time the program attempts to communicate. If you wish to add the program exception in Windows Firewall manually, here is simple way to do it. Control Panel Window will appear, and then double click Security Center. Note : If the program you wish to add is not listed, then you click Add Program… to add that new program. If you fail to add the program exceptions by using above 2 methods, then you can use this method by identifying the program port number and add the exceptions.

You will then see a list of running programs, then identify the program which you have just ran and remember the PID Process ID. In this case, I use Microsoft Netmeeting conf. You will see a list of connections, proceed to identify the connection with the PID you just got and identify the port number used by that program. Key in the program name and its port number.

After that, click OK to enable this program exception. You have done Use the Windows Firewall control panel utility to manage these exceptions. Note : It is not necessary to disable the Windows Firewall to use our software. Firewalls provide a much higher level of security to your computer than default Windows security.

We strongly recommend that you leave the firewall in place and use the mechanisms in the firewall to allow the traffic you need. The program exception allows the software to receive print jobs from your host system. You might enable the exception only for specific network types.