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Magnolia
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Date Joined Aug 2006
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   Posted 8-8-2006 6:50 (GMT +1)    Quote: Help!  Bullguard bans my printer for scanning my ports!Alert an admin about: Help!  Bullguard bans my printer for scanning my ports!
I work in an office with a shared printer, and Bullguard is on all three computers in the office.  Only on this computer, however, will a message occasionally come up saying that an attacker was banned for 600 seconds for trying to scan my ports.  Well, after noticing that I couldn't print anything from this computer until the ban was lifted, I compared the attacker's MAC address with the printer's, and they match.  Is there any way that I can tell Bullguard to allow a certain MAC address?  Help!  I'm not an advanced user, so any simple instructions will be great.  Thank you!
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Virago
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Date Joined Jun 2006
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   Posted 8-13-2006 2:00 (GMT +1)    Quote: Help!  Bullguard bans my printer for scanning my ports!Alert an admin about: Help!  Bullguard bans my printer for scanning my ports!
You could try creating an Advanced Rule which ALLOWS your printers MAC address. The next time this ban is reported open Bullguard, select Firewall, then Advanced mode. Select Custom Security (in Profiles). Then click on Logs, and select security log. Look for the address of your printer which has just been banned. Right click on this line and select ban remote MAC address. This will create an Advanced Rule.
Select Profiles again, and double click on Custom Security. Select Advanced Rules and look for the rule you have just created. Change it from BLOCK to ALLOW and click OK to confirm. This should now have created an Advanced Rule to allow your printer.
I have never needed to do this myself, but it could be worth a try. ;-)
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