Windows Defender failed to Block Firewall Port Exceptions

[Guest]

I was doing a "listen again" on Radio 4 and WinDefend warned me of 2 Firewall
Port Exceptions. Being uncertain, I asked WinDefend to Block them.
After a short while it returned a status of "Failed. 0x80070002. The
system cannot find the file specified." and a message saying WinDefend had:
Encountered error: 0x80501001. One or more actions could not be completed
successfully.

I'm not sure what state I am now left in. Do I need to do anything to
recover from this ? Thanks, Gerry )

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I suspect all is well, and nothing needs to be done, but I'm not familiar
with what you were doing.

If the action you were trying to do "listen again" succeeded, I suspect that
the ports were opened.

You can see the details of what has been allowed through the firewall at:

Control Panel, Security Center, Windows Firewall, Exceptions tab.

I'm not sure what application is involved--perhaps Windows Media Player?
That often has lots of ports open--you need to double-click a given entry to
see the details.

I'm not sure you'll learn anything useful, but maybe you will recognize the
particular ports and see whether they are set as open or not.