My Firewall reports attacks or why does eMule send mails?
Software firewalls analyse traffic by looking over which ports the traffic is send. Many ports are commonly used only by certain applications. Emails for example usually uses port 110 to receive mails and port 25 to send mails. Also trojans and other pest software uses specific ports.
Now all ports are freely configurable in eMule and some users are setting them to ports which are normally used by other applications. This can mean that firewalls report attacks or think that eMule sends mails only because eMule has a connection on a certain port.
If you use the official eMule version you can rest assured that it will not send any unwanted information. Also for the current version 0.46c no exploits are known.
Now all ports are freely configurable in eMule and some users are setting them to ports which are normally used by other applications. This can mean that firewalls report attacks or think that eMule sends mails only because eMule has a connection on a certain port.
If you use the official eMule version you can rest assured that it will not send any unwanted information. Also for the current version 0.46c no exploits are known.
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