Reply to Re: firewall is suspicious
If you don't have an account, just leave the password field blank.
First, is this a personal or work computer? If it is a work computer, you will likely need to go through your network admin to alter this behavior.
I could presume this is a Win8 box, but can direct you better knowing your version with windows.
There are a few places you can alter whether Win8 will ask you to choose between Private or Public, the most direct is in the registry Hive, "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles".
*N.B. If you have any discomfort at all over changing entries in the Registry, you should definitely *back it up to at least 2 locations, such as a thumb-drive. I say 2 because everyone qualified to *make changes in the Registry, already has a policy for backing it up, prior to making any change.
In the specific key "profile" named for the network you are connecting to (the foreign network that the game plays through), the Category entry determines whether it is set to 0, 1, 2, where 0=Public, 1=Private, or 2=Domain.
Domain implies it will set the value based on the Rules set on the PDC.
Private implies the remote system is a member of your Workgroup or Homegroup, and is to be trusted to access your File-shares, Printer-shares, and any other devices you have provided a Network-share for.
Public implies that you are accessing through a publicly accessible network; such as a cafe, wireless hot spot, public library, etc., where other, untrusted computers also connect to the network and could potentially access your system without your knowledge.
To be honest, for all the time it takes, it is worth allowing this pop-up to occur to make you choose between Private or Public, every time. Simply allowing all sites to default to Private (allows more access) is rarely a good thing, unless you can control the environment they are connecting through, which in this case ... you cannot.
Hth,
Mm.
I could presume this is a Win8 box, but can direct you better knowing your version with windows.
There are a few places you can alter whether Win8 will ask you to choose between Private or Public, the most direct is in the registry Hive, "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles".
*N.B. If you have any discomfort at all over changing entries in the Registry, you should definitely *back it up to at least 2 locations, such as a thumb-drive. I say 2 because everyone qualified to *make changes in the Registry, already has a policy for backing it up, prior to making any change.
In the specific key "profile" named for the network you are connecting to (the foreign network that the game plays through), the Category entry determines whether it is set to 0, 1, 2, where 0=Public, 1=Private, or 2=Domain.
Domain implies it will set the value based on the Rules set on the PDC.
Private implies the remote system is a member of your Workgroup or Homegroup, and is to be trusted to access your File-shares, Printer-shares, and any other devices you have provided a Network-share for.
Public implies that you are accessing through a publicly accessible network; such as a cafe, wireless hot spot, public library, etc., where other, untrusted computers also connect to the network and could potentially access your system without your knowledge.
To be honest, for all the time it takes, it is worth allowing this pop-up to occur to make you choose between Private or Public, every time. Simply allowing all sites to default to Private (allows more access) is rarely a good thing, unless you can control the environment they are connecting through, which in this case ... you cannot.
Hth,
Mm.
