How to Open a Port in Webroot?

Not many users really know how antivirus works, including Webroot. Well works and works, protects and well. But sometimes there are situations when you need to interfere with the work of the antivirus in order to facilitate your own. So it is with the opening of ports. And in this article we will tell you why this should be done and how exactly it is done. webroot.com/secure

What is port opening in antivirus?

So, initially you should know that any computer program uses a specific port to transfer data over the network. As an example, we will give you standard Internet Explorer and Outlook programs that run on ports respectively.

The job of an antivirus is that it controls these same ports in order to catch a stream of malicious data in time, for example, downloading a virus.

Typically, Webroot controls a fairly large number of different ports. These are the so-called standard ports, which are used by most programs. Any suspicious and non-standard ports - it simply blocks so as not to be overloaded and not to "direct forces" to a useless port. And if you have just such a “useless” port through which you yourself, or your program, access the network, then you will need to add this port to the antivirus lists. This is the opening of the port in Webroot.

How to open a port in Webroot?

Initially, you will need to go into your antivirus. Click on the settings gear in the lower left corner. You will have several options in the settings menu. You will have to select "additional". On the right side of the plate you will see the item "network", network settings. Go there.

A new page will open for you. Here you will have to find the item "monitored ports". By default, you will have a checkmark set to “monitor only selected ports”. Next to it there will be a "select" button with a link. Click on it.

You will be transferred to the "network ports" window. Here you will see a list of all active ports controlled by your antivirus. webroot.com/safe

At the bottom there will be an add button. After that, a separate window will open for you, where you will have to specify the data of your new port, i.e. description and numbers of the port itself.

In our case, this is the network printer port program, with port. We set an active status for it and click on “add” at the bottom.

That, in fact, is all. You will only have to accept all the changes, then close all antivirus windows and get to work.

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