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I installed McAfee Total Protection yesterday. Today, I fired up BitTornado, my BitTorrent client of choice. Apparently the firewall has blocked everything torrent-related, because all it does it show the "Starting up..." message and nothing else. After a long time, it showed a message in red that said "ERROR -- Couldn't listen - unable to forward port via UPnP."

I assume it's the settings in McAfee that are causing the problem. I went into the firewall section and added BitTornado to the list of programs that are allowed access to the Internet. But I assume there's some magical port-related thing that needs to be fixed as well. I'd really rather not turn the firewall off altogether, since I think having it is a generally fine idea. But assuming I'm not breaking things by torrenting (and assuming the files I'm torrenting are clean), what do I need to do to make a torrent-sized hole in the firewall?

Help?

ETA: I turned off the firewall temporarily, and started up BitTornado again. Same result. So it's not simply the firewall. But it has to be something in the protection suite.


ETA later: Fixed. Disabling UPnP forwarding in BitTornado solved the problem.

Date: 2011-06-15 06:24 pm (UTC)
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See if the suite has any application control options that you could twiddle.

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