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I have taken over a site a few months ago of which I have installed a firewall on, reading through the firewall logs there are hundreds of requests for port 135, 139, 445, 1026 and a few other ports all from different ip's<br />
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I had planned to open up 443 for owa over ssl but am reluctant due to the amount of access blocks logged in the firewall from outside ip's. Is this normal can anything &nbsp;be done other than asking there isp for a new static ip and also should I be concerned about opening 443 under these circumstances<br />
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Thanks
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I have taken over a site a few months ago of which I have installed a firewall on, reading through the firewall logs there are hundreds of requests for port 135, 139, 445, 1026 and a few other ports all from different ip's

I had planned to open up 443 for owa over ssl but am reluctant due to the amount of access blocks logged in the firewall from outside ip's. Is this normal can anything  be done other than asking there isp for a new static ip and also should I be concerned about opening 443 under these circumstances

Thanks

Internet requests filling firewall logs

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Software Firewalls

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