Firewall - System policy for outgoing traffic

[rvdmeer]

Since a couple of days we are experiencing problems with some scripting that is installing a bouncer/eggdrop on our server.

I want to prevent any downloads from external websites to my server thru php scripting on our server.

Currently the option: System policy for outgoing traffic is allowed at our servers. I'm wondering if closing it would make it more secure.. but if i do.. could i lock myself out..

And.. maybe some general advise on this situation?

Thanks in advance.

 

[jspilon]

you sure want to disable the updater to check out for updates everytime you login cause otherwise when logging in as admin will take a while... then timeouts and then lets you in