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Do I have to make changes to Remote Registry, change firewall settings or depend on opening ports of any kind?

April 26, 2017changes depend firewall opening ports Registry remote settings

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Do I have to make changes to Remote Registry, change firewall settings or depend on opening ports of any kind?

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No. Unlike the swarms of freeware audit programs that are little more than a bunch of WMI-based VBScript wrapped in a GUI, we don’t rely on WMI or require any changes to ports, firewalls, or anything else. These programs are not a good idea and here’s why.