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How to setup the firewall on your BlackBerry
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Tuesday June 16, 2009
Tutorials
Tuesday June 16, 2009
Unknown to many users your BlackBerry has a
firewall
that you can enable. This can be used toblock unwanted SMS or MMS messages, PIN messages
, and more. At the same time you can elect to allow messages from your contacts. With theBlackBerry firewall
, you canstop spam SMS messages
from being delivered to your device.Download this episode now
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Windows Media Show Notes
- On your BlackBerry navigate to the Settings icon and press the trackball or touch screen.
- In Settings navigate to the Options icon and press the trackball or touch screen.
- In Options navigate to Security Options and press the trackball or touch screen.
- In Security Options navigate to
- In Firewall click on Disabled with the trackball or touch screen, scroll to Enabled and click the trackball or touch screen again.
- You can now go in and highlight things like SMS or MMS. Click the trackball or touch screen to put a check mark next to the ones you want to block.
- Assuming you don't want to block your friends go down and click the box next to Except for Contacts.
- This will allow your contacts to message you, but will block SMS messages from numbers that aren't in your contact list.
- When you're finished making changes press the BlackBerry menu key, highlight Save, and press the trackball.
- In Settings navigate to the Options icon and press the trackball or touch screen.
- In Options navigate to Security Options and press the trackball or touch screen.
- In Security Options navigate to
Firewall
and press the trackball or touch screen one more time.- In Firewall click on Disabled with the trackball or touch screen, scroll to Enabled and click the trackball or touch screen again.
- You can now go in and highlight things like SMS or MMS. Click the trackball or touch screen to put a check mark next to the ones you want to block.
- Assuming you don't want to block your friends go down and click the box next to Except for Contacts.
- This will allow your contacts to message you, but will block SMS messages from numbers that aren't in your contact list.
- When you're finished making changes press the BlackBerry menu key, highlight Save, and press the trackball.
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