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Can Avast Remote Assistance only bypass Avast Firewall, or can it also bypass competitor firewalls like McAfee Firewall?
When I was browsing Yahoo Answers and Yahoo Search recently I discovered the Avast Remote Assistance feature in Avast Antivirus, and Avast Remote Assistance is claimed to "bypass firewalls." I do not know whether Avast Remote Assistance only bypasses Avast Firewall or bypasses all firewalls (e.g. McAfee Firewall). If Avast Remote Assistance can bypass non-Avast firewalls, today's firewall technology is equally as weak to cybercriminals and hackers, which means I would need to design a new firewall technology.
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- Anonymous6 years ago
You obviously have absolutely no clue about computers, software, firewalls or much else. Any remote software requires setting up and enabling before it can be used. Part of that setup requires the user to permit it to make changes. One such change would be to open a firewall port appropriate to the server part of the program. Alternatively as in remote access clients like Teamviewer or Logmein the program connects to a remote site and REQUESTS return packets to be allowed so the firewall does not have any effect whatsoever. But the person connecting would need to know the id and password of the machine before they could connect. But of course if you are stupid enough to run any such program on your machine without proper security, and leave it running when you did not need it, anyone in the world could access your machine. You are obviously not clever enough to build a firewall.
