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Re: Opera 10.10 keeps opening ICF ports - security issue? I can see UPnP performing on the fly port and network translations, but I don't think it can, or should open up the firewall. There's probably more than one thing happening here. In the case of the firewall, perhaps there is a setting telling Opera to configure the firewall, but in addition, I would think that Opera would have to be operating with administrative privileges. Running any browser with administrative privileges is, in itself, a security issue.
I would be very interested if Opera is changing ICF settings while not running with administrative privileges. | |
| All right, I took a perfectly good Opera 9.6 something and loaded 10.10 on top of it. I ran the install with administrative privileges, but unchecked the box that said to run Opera after the install completed.
Then, I started the Opera under a limited user account and Windows Firewall is operating normally, with the usual pop-up messages.
The only way I see Opera having a chance to change firewall settings is if it is running with administrative privileges, and that privilege level would be the overriding security concern.
As suggested in this thread, I set about to disable any services within the browser process I'm not going to be using. | |
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