| Firewall Problem With VE [message #90688] |
Wed, 11 May 2005 19:32  |
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Originally posted by: home.davehewitson.plus.com
When I open the visual editor, my McAfee firewall pops up and says that
java.exe is trying to act as a server, and asks me if I want to grant this
access? This is then made a permanent setting on my system.
I really don't want to do that in in case any nasties get on my system.
Why is this, and is there a way to have this running without compromising my
system security?
Thanks for any help.
Dave.
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| Re: Firewall Problem With VE [message #90719 is a reply to message #90688] |
Wed, 11 May 2005 20:01  |
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Originally posted by: myersj.gmail.com
Dave,
The Visual Editor spawns Java VMs to model and render the visual classes
you're working on. Eclipse communicates with these remote VMs by making
network connections to localhost (127.0.0.1), the same way as if you
were to debug a Java application. I'm not familiar with that particular
firewall, but perhaps there's some advanced option to allow it to only
accept incoming connections from localhost.
Hope this helps,
- Jeff
Dave wrote:
> When I open the visual editor, my McAfee firewall pops up and says that
> java.exe is trying to act as a server, and asks me if I want to grant this
> access? This is then made a permanent setting on my system.
>
> I really don't want to do that in in case any nasties get on my system.
>
> Why is this, and is there a way to have this running without compromising my
> system security?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Dave.
>
>
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| Re: Firewall Problem With VE [message #90734 is a reply to message #90688] |
Wed, 11 May 2005 20:08 |
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Originally posted by: richkulp.us.NO_SPAM.ibm.com
Unfortunately no. The firewalls determine it by the exe, but all java
applications use the same exe, so they are all look the same to the
firewall. You would have the same problem if you used the Eclipse Update
Manager to download updates. Since eclipse is a java application you
would need to give the java.exe access.
The only way around this would be to point to a different java
installation, one that is only used for TCP/IP access. That way your
standard requests for java usage of the Internet could be turned off.
Unless they knew about your special java installation they couldn't get
access.
Does McAfee have further constraints such as it will only accept local
host connections? If it does, you can turn that on so that any java
application can't listen to or go out onto the Internet.
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Thanks,
Rich Kulp
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| Re: Firewall Problem With VE [message #607738 is a reply to message #90688] |
Wed, 11 May 2005 20:08 |
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Originally posted by: richkulp.us.NO_SPAM.ibm.com
Unfortunately no. The firewalls determine it by the exe, but all java
applications use the same exe, so they are all look the same to the
firewall. You would have the same problem if you used the Eclipse Update
Manager to download updates. Since eclipse is a java application you
would need to give the java.exe access.
The only way around this would be to point to a different java
installation, one that is only used for TCP/IP access. That way your
standard requests for java usage of the Internet could be turned off.
Unless they knew about your special java installation they couldn't get
access.
Does McAfee have further constraints such as it will only accept local
host connections? If it does, you can turn that on so that any java
application can't listen to or go out onto the Internet.
--
Thanks,
Rich Kulp
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