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ScriptWolf

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Firewall help
« on: March 13, 2013, 06:22:24 pm »
So I'm currently setting up the firewall where I work and I'm trying to get flash locked down so students can't play games. I have been searching around for what ports flash uses when playing games through the net, but I have not had much luck. Could someone help me out is it possible to block flash games on a port level or am I wasting my time ?

Thanks in advance.
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Mullet Master

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Re: Firewall help
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2013, 06:36:32 pm »
Hard to block flash server wide, I would think.
Look up the top flash game sites and block those instead.
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Re: Firewall help
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2013, 06:48:05 pm »
Yeah thats what we have been doing but they are starting to go to Russian, Chinese, Iranian and other countries sites looking for games and some of the sites are very dodgy and I also have to deal with any problems which happen because of this *sighs*

Is it not possible to just block the certain ports. It's not sever wide, we have licenses for personal firewalls on each machine which I have been setting. these machines then follow an overall policy which is set by me
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Re: Firewall help
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2013, 09:15:36 pm »
Remove flash entirely from all the machines?  They're set so users can't install software right?  I run with flashblock enabled all the time, and there's only about 1% of the sites that I ever *have* to turn it on.  Or, I'm not very familiar with policies, but I have heard you can set group policies to block .flv and .swf files, and just whitelist sites that they HAVE to access that require flash?
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Re: Firewall help
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2013, 06:26:08 am »
I can't take it off the machines because the students need it for "work" and sometimes they do but most of the times not.

Also I shall take a look at blocking .flv and .swf and then white list that seems to be a bit of a easier fix
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Re: Firewall help
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2013, 03:03:25 pm »
Quote from: ScriptWolf on March 15, 2013, 06:26:08 am
I can't take it off the machines because the students need it for "work" and sometimes they do but most of the times not.

Also I shall take a look at blocking .flv and .swf and then white list that seems to be a bit of a easier fix
this will be a better option, there isn't a port that you can block for flash objects most of it is loaded through HTTP port: 80.
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