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  2. Windows Firewall - Wikipedia

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    XP's Windows Firewall cannot block outbound connections; it is only capable of blocking inbound ones. Windows Firewall turned out to be one of the two most significant reasons (the other being DCOM activation security) [10] that many corporations did not upgrade to Service Pack 2 in a timely fashion. Around the time of SP2's release, a number ...

  3. Reverse connection - Wikipedia

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    A reverse connection is usually used to bypass firewall restrictions on open ports. [1] A firewall usually blocks incoming connections on closed ports, but does not block outgoing traffic . In a normal forward connection, a client connects to a server through the server's open port , but in the case of a reverse connection, the client opens the ...

  4. Egress filtering - Wikipedia

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    Egress filtering may require policy changes and administrative work whenever a new application requires external network access. For this reason, egress filtering is an uncommon feature on consumer and very small business networks. PCI DSS requires outbound filtering to be in place on any server in the cardholder's environment.

  5. Enable and disable firewall in McAfee - AOL Help

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    On the Windows taskbar, next to the clock, double-click the McAfee (M) icon. In the McAfee SecurityCenter window, click Web and Email Protection. Click Firewall Off. Click the Turn On button. Click Done. Don't see the McAfee icon next to the clock? If you're using Windows 7 or 8, click the arrow next to the clock to reveal hidden icons.

  6. Quick Assist - Wikipedia

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    While Remote Assistance establishes a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection to the end user's computer (requires TCP port 3389 to be opened on the client machine and the firewall/NAT/router behind which the machine is), Quick Assist is cloud-based and requires one outbound connection from the helper's PC to the cloud service/Microsoft server ...

  7. Bandwidth throttling - Wikipedia

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    without bandwidth throttling, a server could efficiently serve only 100 active TCP connections (100 MB/s / 1 MB/s) before saturating network bandwidth; a saturated network (i.e. with a bottleneck through an Internet Access Point) could slow down a lot the attempts to establish other new connections or even to force them to fail because of ...

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  9. Out-of-band management - Wikipedia

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    Both in-band and out-of-band management are usually done through a network connection, but an out-of-band management card can use a physically separated network connector if preferred. A remote management card usually has at least a partially independent power supply and can switch the main machine on and off through the network.