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Chapter 10 Applications
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• Anti-virus to check files you download for computer viruses.
BitTorrent and Your Firewall
The anti-virus feature on a firewall probably cannot check BitTorrent downloads for viruses, so use
anti-virus software on your computer to scan the NSA for viruses.
When you download using BitTorrent, many other BitTorrent users are also trying to download the
file from you. The firewall slows this down because by default, it only allows traffic from the
Internet in response to a request that originated on the LAN (it lets you get files from the Internet
and blocks those on the Internet from getting files from you).
Figure 112 Firewall Blocking Incoming BitTorrent Requests
To speed up BitTorrent file transfers, configure your firewall’s port forwarding to send incoming TCP
port 9090 and UDP port 9089 connections to the NSA. You probably need to use your firewall’s