Moderators hazelnut Posted August 14, 2006 Moderators Share Posted August 14, 2006 I installed a program yesterday and opened exceptions in windows firewall for it. An hour later I totally uninstalled it. This morning when I turned on my computer I just thought I'd check the firewall settings. The program was still in it as were the port exceptions. I had assumed an uninstall would include the firewall exceptions. Would this have meant if I hadn't checked, that those ports would have been kept open? Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted August 14, 2006 Moderators Share Posted August 14, 2006 Would this have meant if I hadn't checked, that those ports would have been kept open? It's hard to know exactly since Windows Firewall doesn't come with the best documentation of it's workings, therefore I don't know if a missing .exe file can leave open ports or not. You probably already know this; under the Exceptions tab if that missing program is still listed you can highlight it, then click the Delete button to get rid of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted August 14, 2006 Author Moderators Share Posted August 14, 2006 As soon as I saw that the named port exceptions were still there I quickly learnt that I could highlight and delete them! It's a lesson learnt for me that port exceptions manually created for a program in windows firewall, must be manually deleted after program uninstallation. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted August 14, 2006 Moderators Share Posted August 14, 2006 It's a lesson learnt for me that port exceptions manually created for a program in windows firewall, must be manually deleted after program uninstallation. Any firewall is that way. Unless of course it was some bloated program which you'd use a System Restore point to get rid of. I don't know if an ERUNT backup would get rid of them or not. I personally don't allow Exceptions in Windows Firewall and have ticked on the General tab "Don't allow exceptions" and as of yet (knock on wood) I haven't had to enable exceptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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