Only local connections are allowed. Protect ports to prevent access by malicious code

Error Message: [RemoteTestNG] detected TestNG version 6.14.3 Starting ChromeDriver 79.0.3945.36 (3582db32b3339e8f4d9ed1816f143-refs/branch-heads/394@14}) on port 14625 Only local connections are allowed. Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code.

Windows 10 Note that I have already tried the following:

1. Downloaded the latest version of the chrome driver for version 79 present in https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=79.0.3945.36/

2. tried workaround.bat with the following text which did not work. C:\p<>\chromedriver.exe --whitelist-ip %*