Port 80 - How to secure

hello,

i just got the comodo personal firewall installed and so far i am liking every byte of it. i’m still learning the ropes and i figured that i join the comodo forums to get some more information about the product.

i went through 2 online port scans from hackerwatch and portsense and i did get the same results. they mentioned that my http port 80 is open and unsecure.

what i try to do was configure CPF…

BLOCK TCP or UDP In/Out from IP [Any] to IP [Any] where source port is 80 and destination port is 80.

went through the port scans again and it still sees that port 80 is open.

How should i configure CPF to secure port 80? If it gets secured, would i still be able to connect to the internet?

Thank you so much in advance and more power to comodo!

/timber\

Hi and welcome to the forum! If you block port 80, you won’t have internet so this is a false reading. You have to have port 80 open. No matter what, for communication if you block all your ports , you can’t communicate. Do you mean stealthed? Did you install in auto mode?

Paul

hello paul,

hey thanks for the quick reply and thanks for the information.

i guess that’s what i meant, hide port 80. sorry for the confusion.

since i am fairly new to the product, i believe i installed it auto and did not bother to go into advance setup. if there is any setup that i missed and i should have done, please let me know.

again, thank you very much for the quick reply. appreciate the knowldge.

/timber\

Hi, are you behind a router? Do you have applications using this currently?

Paul

Edit: Forgot to mention, if your port 80 is not stealthed\closed, you will have to configure it on your router.

Hi,

yes we are behind a router.
i think we’d better look into the setting then.
thank you very much!

/timber\

No problem. The router will determine your stealth\closed on this. :wink:

Paul