 WildcatboyPremium,Mod
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Re: Ad Filtering Programs keep Ports open
To tell you the truth one of my pet peeves about ad blockers, cookie killers etc... has always been the fact that they almost always are some sort of a proxy server. The problem starts when most people simply install them and see them do a good job in killing cookies and ads but unlike you, they hardly think about the vulnerabilities that a proxy server can create. Gwion's advices are quite valid and you really need to make sure those proxy servers are not visible from outside and are only accessible to your localhost. Some products give you the option and some don't and not many people know how to configure their firewall to accomplish this. So the end result could be that they save themselves from cookies but they also open a door to their machine for people to get in. Which one is worse? You be the judge.
In any case using Gwion's advice and ZAP you should be able to deny access to your proxy server from the Internet. If you are not able to close the port my suggestion is that either switch to a more configurable firewall such as Tiny or dump the program all together.
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