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AVG Firewall and bittorrent

doubledown · 2006-10-19 11:40:23

I recently dumped McAfee Security Center off my PC and got AVG Antivirus (not the free one) instead, with a firewall. But since then I haven't been able to run any torrents. My settings are exactly the same in bittorrent and I have granted it access in my firewall settings. I have upnp enabled but the torrents just won't…

19-10-2006 11:40AM

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doubledown

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I recently dumped McAfee Security Center off my PC and got AVG Antivirus (not the free one) instead, with a firewall. But since then I haven't been able to run any torrents. My settings are exactly the same in bittorrent and I have granted it access in my firewall settings. I have upnp enabled but the torrents just won't even start.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

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#2 19-10-2006 06:50PM

daywalker

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is there any port configuration for incoming traffic, afaik setting up the program in firewall software usually covers any outgoing traffic/ports the program may use but if the incoming traffic is on a different port avg may be blocking it

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