Quake 4 & Norton firewall

[emanckin777]

I've blocked the quake4.exe executable from connecting to the internet in norton personal firewall but quake seems to be able to contact the authorization server anyway. How come?

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[AndyMutz]

I've blocked the quake4.exe executable from connecting to the internet in norton personal firewall but quake seems to be able to contact the authorization server anyway. How come?

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well, maybe norton personal firewall just isn't a good firewall (i don't know, i don't use it) ;)
but why would you want to block quake4 from contacting the auth server anyway?

-andy-

[DABhand]

I've blocked the quake4.exe executable from connecting to the internet in norton personal firewall but quake seems to be able to contact the authorization server anyway. How come?

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I think you kinda answered your own question there

[Luciel]

The only reason you would want to do that is so that it doesnt check wether your copy is legal as its a famous thing about quake 4 and "scene released" versions.

[Oblivion]

OOH!:D What's your guess?:confused: Doownlood or Pirated?:mad:

[emanckin777]

well, maybe norton personal firewall just isn't a good firewall (i don't know, i don't use it) ;)
but why would you want to block quake4 from contacting the auth server anyway?

-andy-

Well, the point here is that the executable manages to connect to the internet even though I've told norton it can't have internet access. There are a lot of situations where you want to keep applications from accessing the internet (spyware, virus etc).

Therefore it interests me how the q4 exe manages to get a connection. If it can connect to the internet then other applications might as well.

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