E
E/B
Seeking advice about possible rules of thumb/guidelines for granting rights
for various Windows programs to act as a "server" (as opposed to permitting
just "access") on a single home-based PC protected by ZA that is only used
for email and general browsing?
Requests from firewall occur almost daily and I have heard "never" and
"maybe" for Server permission.
ZA explains it as follows in their documentation:
Granting a program permission to act as a server
Exercise caution when granting permission for programs to act as a server,
as Trojan
horses and other types of malware often need server rights in order to do
mischief.
Permission to act as a server should be reserved for programs you know and
trust, and
that need server permission to operate properly.
My initial reaction each time is 'no', but there may be an unknown
underlying justification. Ex: get fairly frequent requests for Windows
Explorer to act a server but admit to not having any rationale for a Yes or
No. Denial does not seem to have a noticable effect.
How may I determine that a program must have Server needs in order to grant
the permission prospectively?
for various Windows programs to act as a "server" (as opposed to permitting
just "access") on a single home-based PC protected by ZA that is only used
for email and general browsing?
Requests from firewall occur almost daily and I have heard "never" and
"maybe" for Server permission.
ZA explains it as follows in their documentation:
Granting a program permission to act as a server
Exercise caution when granting permission for programs to act as a server,
as Trojan
horses and other types of malware often need server rights in order to do
mischief.
Permission to act as a server should be reserved for programs you know and
trust, and
that need server permission to operate properly.
My initial reaction each time is 'no', but there may be an unknown
underlying justification. Ex: get fairly frequent requests for Windows
Explorer to act a server but admit to not having any rationale for a Yes or
No. Denial does not seem to have a noticable effect.
How may I determine that a program must have Server needs in order to grant
the permission prospectively?