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Protect a few ports from local network. Is my Firewall rule secure?


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I'm trying to reject (ESET should notify and ask me first) access for some ports (80,443,8080,22, and others) from my local network. -for the whole internet it's already protected from Windows Firewall and my router settings and all access are blocked. But for local network, it's opening and allowing.

I did the following:

  • 1) Created a rule in the firewall.
  • 2) Set the settings as the following:
    • 2.1) Direction: In
    • 2.2) Action: Ask
    • 2.3) Protocol: TCP
    • 2.4) Local window > Ports: 80,443,8080-8082,21-23
    • 2.5) Remote window > Zones: Private addresses

It is working great as expected (everyone in the local network trying to access any of these ports; the app will notify me whether to allow or reject it). But, the problem is, sometimes when I first logon to Windows, it asks me, and from time to time (idk when it happens, but randomly i think), it asks me. That's the first thing.

The second thing is, is this rule really secure? or did i do something unnecessary and put my device in danger?

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Specs:

  • OS: Windows 11
  • Product: ESET Internet Security
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