Re: Firewall questions - DNS connections attempts - Security

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Blue2 Premium join:2004-04-14 France kudos:1	reply to Blue2 Re: Firewall questions - DNS connections attempts That makes perfect sense and is great advice. I've only seen the requests coming from Kerio and KAV and only within the first few minutes after connecting to the network. So I think I'll create a rule to block the packets from those apps and not alert, whereas I do like to be alerted when other DNS connections are blocked when I attempt to connect when traveling. Does setting the DNS client to manual have any effect on svchoet.exe startup particularly if the host file is large?
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TheWiseGuy Dog And Butterfly Premium,MVM join:2002-07-04 Yonkers, NY kudos:1 Reviews: ·Optimum Online	I am not an expert on this stuff. According to Black Viper(one of the sources on services) Manual ~ Manual mode allows Windows to start a service when needed. However, very few services will start up when required in Manual mode. If you find you need a service, place it into Automatic. So setting it to manual means that it will not start until the first DNS request. So you speed the start-up of the computer but then have to wait for svchost to start to have it do the lookup. -- Warning, If you post nonsense and use misinformation and are here to argue based on those methods, you will be put on ignore.
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