If you have a program that is blocked by a firewall how do you unblock it?

Question

Please be thourough, I'm not that computer savvy.

Answer 1

What firewall are you using? You usually have to put the program on the firewall's "white-list". If you use windows firewall:-
-Open windows firewall from control pannel
-Make sure don't allow exceptions is NOT checked
-go to exceptions tab
-add your program.
Use similar procedure for other firewalls.

Answer 2

Usually, when you start a software program which connects to the Internet, your firewall will prompt you asking if you want to allow the connection or not. It will only prompt you the very first time the program trys to connect to the Internet. If you say "yes" then it will be added to the whitelist and your firewall will permit it all the time. If you say "no" then it will be added to the blacklist and will be blocked everytime. If in the future, you want to change a program's status then you have to edit the appropriate list. In your case, you go to your firewall's control settings and enter the program you want to connect to the Internet. All firewalls are different and therefore the steps are different as well. Do you know which firewall you are using?

Answer 3

Its it windows Firewall, or a different firewall like from AOL or something else?

Answer 4

if something dose not pop up you should see a red or yellow shield at the bottom right corner click on it.

Answer 5

well you have to shut off every thing printer computer everey thing then if pops up again dobel click