Why port blocking is bad

[torkell]

Because this is what you get if Java gets given port 3130 by Windows:



And in Eclipse I was greated by the wonderful message of:

FATAL ERROR in native method: No transports initialized
err:: No such file or directory
Error [2] in connect() call!
Socket transport failed to init.
Transport dt_socket failed to initialize, rc = -1.

Thank you, Norton.

Comments

[olego.livejournal.com]

And that is why I don't use any of Norton's products any more. Sure, their disk doctor was nifty 8 years ago; but:

(1) Their virus scanner effectively halves the speed of any computer.
(2) Their firewall is a pain in the arse. I'm so far happy with my Windows firewall, because, as simple as it is, it doesn't bother me at all.