Help needed! Firewall Configuration.

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Swiss

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Hi guys not sure if this is the right place to post this.... But here goes:

I cannot access certain websites (think it is only the secure ones): Hotmail, Gmail, Facebook, home email account; when I use my laptop (wireless), but i can access all others that i have tried.

When I use one of my mates laptop (wireless same network), I can access the above websites.

What is wrong? Why do I have to do so that I can access those sites?

With IE 7, it say that the page cannot be displayed, I can then run a diagonistic test to see what the problem is , it comes back and says that "I had to check the firewalls parameters for ports. HTTP (80), HTTPS (443) and FTP (21)"

I have also tried with firefox, same problem.

Where do I change it and how?

Help much appreciated
 
To change the Windows firewall settings go to 'Control Panel>Network Connections' then right-click on the connection and select properties, 'advanced>settings' you can then chose the services that you want to allow access to. On my comp i don't have any of these as accessible through Windows firewall and wouldn't recommend that you do as it makes browser hijacking easier. You should also check 'tools>options>security' in Firefox and 'tools>internet options>security' & 'tools>internet options>advanced' in IE to see if they are blocking the sites, just in case.
 
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Cheers. I am at work at the moment, but i'll check it tonight. I might have to come back and ask a few more questions if it doesn't work.
 
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