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In that case, you will be able to restore the previous settings by relaunching the Windows Firewall Notifier it will then "uninstall".

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We are emailed when posts are marked as spam and respond ASAP. Some posts might be deleted to reduce clutter. Examples include religion, politics, and comments about listing errors after we fix the problem and upvote your comment. Finally, be nice. Also I did get an alert from these MS dial-outs that are still causing me problems. Alert was for svchost — dsncache TCP port 80? I did allow it and am monitoring it since I did come across a discussion on the web on this stange behavior in WIN 7.

No wonder no one has ever tried this before! Thanks :- Regarding the two bugs: I fixed them locally but have not updated the beta, thanks for noticing. A few things here. The gui looks exactly the same to me, I see no change. My existing rules were all checkmarked. I see no option to disable service detection except by manually editing the config file and changing the value to false. Okay I found the option to disable service detection and I also noticed the uninstall button was moved to that same tab.

I do have a question though. I checked the box to disable service detection and it does work. I tested it with Windows Update and the services box is just greyed out. My question is this. Why does the config file still say this even with the box checked and service detection not running? I did restrict it to port 80 so lets see if that works.

I do know that Microsoft has made output firewall processing as difficult as possible as far as svchost is concerned. Appears some but not all services do a type of outbound broadcast to all three Win 7 profiles. Since I only have the private profile active, the firewall will block outbound connections to the other two profiles.

Hence I suspect the constant WFN svchost. I have set all my svchost. Will keep you posted on developments. Note that it protects nothing protocol, port, or any other network access wise.

Further, WIN 7 introduces no standard service use e. Your assumption is pretty wrong. What I am finding out is a lot of the svchost dial-outs are due to built-in Microsoft spyware.

Win 7 installs Windows Defender by default. I also turned off the Customer Experience baloney only to find out WIn 7 still attempts to dial-out. I am allowing only the following outbound in addition to the provided WIN 7 core rules:.

For the improvements… well, check the included read-me. Two important points: — WFN needs to be enabled again for its first-time launch in this version, so hit OK when it asks if you want it to be activated. I personally, have kept my blanket svchost rule and deleted the ones that were automatically produced since they were redundant. For those who want to use the services detection however, I feel there need to be a few more default rules. One thing I really like in the latest beta is the connection monitoring.

That could prove very useful in the event of a problem. I found after a lot of web searching, two required outbound rules for both win 7 activation and windows defender. Neither of which will show in the event logs if not present. I will post those tomorrow. I have everything nailed down except for Appication Experience.

Did a lot of research and found win 7 will still attempt to dial-out even if you disable that option in the GUI. For some reason even though I have a svchost. Strange indeed. There is a lot of community sentiment that says BITS should be harnessed since a lot of malware has been known to use it. If so, I may consider removing that default rule.

Last but not least, v1. Sould be an alpha release, but it seems to be perfectly working. Let me now if it does not! I consider it spyware to the ninth degree.

Was mysteriously installed on my Win 7 OS and was an absolute bear to get rid of. WIN 7 creates a rundll I stopped the Appication Experience WIN 7 firewall log entries by creating a block rule for it for all profiles. I have also created a block rule for the Multimedia Scheduler service for the Domain and Public profiles to stop those from showing up in the logs.

Appears both the above services do a broadcast to all profiles. Appears to be a WIN 7 bug to me. Am I wrong assuming they both do? I do love the new version!

Especially the TCPView like connection display that shows the connections with the big plus of showing the individual services running. Interesting is it not? Also I am still seeing blocked connections in the firewall logs for which I am not receiving alerts from WFN. I am hoping these are the result of the block rules I created for Application Experience and Multimedia Scheduler. I am fairly certain those two services are being used by WIN 7 to constantly dial home to Microsoft.

I verified that yesterday. Chrome is the default on my XP laptop. WAT now connects in a different way than what you posted. It now uses a file called WatAdminSvc. I updated 1. Win 7 has a core outbound rule to cover Teredo outbound for IPHelper service. So I let it in for the time being. I am still getting svchost. Always to Alkami or MS servers.

So far no alerts from WFN. I have absolutely no knowledge regarding Teredo; you wrote that Win7 has a core default rule for it, so it should not raise any notification, except if really needed. So I guess this is where the problem lies: if WFN notifies about an outgoing expected Teredo connection, the user will be able to create a global rule while it should target a specific server, is that what you mean? If so, what about a forced IP selection for the related rule to ease a proper rule creation?

If so, did you update to the latest 1. I did update to the latest 1. Interestingly, I am no longer getting popups from the unknown svchost. However, the events are still being logged in the WIN 7 firewall log? Did this latest ver. Prior to the IPv6 vers. Starting with the IPv6 vers. What I am saying is WFN should ignore that activity.

The WIN 7 core rule will dymanically open and close any ports required. However I do see some value with being alerted that the tunnel is being opened by an outbound process.

Key here that remote IP for the connection be I am not getting any alerts for Teredo. Is that because I have no IPv6 service? Or is it due to me disabling services detection? I looked at the rule again that WFN generated for Teredo. That sure looks like some kind of Chinese symbol to me — does it not? BTW — if you have service notification alerts off, you are not going to see any alerts related to services.

No, it only means that WFN may be reading memory pages it should not probably because of pointer targetting freed memory zone. Yes, that is correct. Regarding the service detection, if you disable it, you will still get notifications, but for the corresponding host.

Quote—Teredo is a transition technology that gives full IPv6 connectivity for IPv6-capable hosts which are on the IPv4 Internet but which have no direct native connection to an IPv6 network. Compared to other similar protocols its distinguishing feature is that it is able to perform its function even from behind network address translation NAT devices such as home routers.

The blocks are shown in my event log as originating from svchost. At first they appeared to occur once an hour. Later observation shows that is not true; can be longer in duration. They mostly occur when I am using the Internet but not always. The destination IPs are always Microsoft or Alkami related. The activity persists for approximately 5 minutes and then goes dormat. Like I previously mentioned, It has been shown that WIN 7 does this data uploading regardless of the Application Experience participation setting.

In any case, the fact that WFN in the latest ver. Teredo is just a formalized protocol for peer-to-peer activity. There are a dozen or so public Teredo servers spread around world. Teredo is dangerous since anything running on a Vista or WIN 7 box can use it. Teredo is not just for P2P and was not developed for that reason at all. It was developed to allow the reception of IPv6 content where it would be otherwise unavailable. I saw a little bug that went through all tests that have been done, I had to update to 1.

The bug: service detection was indeed failing, but instead of showing the host process, nothing was shown. Don: Unfortunately, it means that the behavior you were talking about was indeed buggy, and you should get more alerts with 1. I downloaded ver.

I received one WFN popup about svchost. From the IP address shown, appears this popup was Lanmnaworkstation service related and WFN is not recognizing my existing firewall rule to allow that service. Anyway I am sticking with ver. It would require that I use the SC xxxx command from a command window prompt to convert each svchost.

Yesterday I read that WIN 7 has over system services. I have a feeling that there might be services that will have to be allowed through the firewall using criteria other than service name. To date I have been unable to find a document anywhere that shows which WIN 7 services require Internet access and which ports and protocols are used. Only available are firewall exception definitions for individual applications.

I also saw a couple of choice comments to the effect that Microsoft has been intentionallly vague on WIN firewall specifics because they want you to purchase their One Care product. The verdict is still out of those two. I am still receiving generic svchost.

I am starting to stronglt suspect Avast! What I have observed appears to be IP redirect activity. I have blocked avastui. I have suspected avastui. This might also explain the constant starting and stopping of the Application Experience service that is recorded in my event log. Support in Windows 7 and Vista 64 for interactive services is intended for use by legacy applications. This places restrictions on the information that can be sent to the user.

If the list result is empty, it means that the process is not run as a service. The following sample code illustrates the meaning. Using another detection routine would not change a thing, and WMI would return an empty result as well if the corresponding service is not running anymore….

I wondered why you thought service detection was failing, so I retested 1. As written in the release notes: shame on me. I updated to 1. If I enable services detection and disable my blanket svchost rule, Windows Time is detected and a rule is made for that specific service.

However, if the default rule for Windows Update is deleted and you try to use it, you get an alert for svchost with the services box grayed out but with a bunch of services listed like AeLookup, BITS, EapHost, iphelper and probably more since it runs out of space at that point.

If you click on allow you get a blanket rule for svchost created. I really hate to say this but I have reached the conclusion that all this stuff with services detection has been a complete waste of time and effort.

Nobody else does it and I think we now know why. Service detection is once again disabled for me and will remain so. Also, if you block any part of Avast from connecting, you are probably defeating the purpose of improving detection rates by having samples and events automatically sent to their servers and giving them faster response times to new malware.

I prefer to contribute to improving the product. This is not a bug. Windows Update can not be detected since connections are not living long enough and are using random local ports.

You think that 1. Cryptservice and BITS were also originally detected correctly with a specific rule created for them. You changed something somewhere that is causing the different behavior. Neither in the program folder itself nor on the website. Believe me, when I decide to reimplement something, it means that it is actually better than what I previously achieved stupid bugs apart ;- , simply because I hate losing my time.

Where you see worse results, I see better reliability, and this is what users are all expecting Sorry, I should have followed up on my missing service detection posting. Appears that if you reboot after installing WFN, there is no issue with services being detected. I also noticed the same behavior in the 1. I think I know — said this many times …. AKA — real or psuedo windows messenger activity although I thought I disabled windows messenger. I am still concerned at this outbound Workstation service activity.

That service is used primarily for LAN activity. Tonight I will experiment with disabling LANManWorkstation service rule and hope the issue was really related to the missing Functional Discovery service rules. I think the key element for getting a grip on these services is a real-time logging capability of which service was used and what network details were involved.

Actually this is a glaring omission to Windows event logging in my opinion. Or they ran into the same issues as you have in trying to capture which subservice process actually caused the firewall alert. Khan will correct me if I am wrong. If you do that for all and every services, it will allow only one service for each svchost instance, meaning that WFN should be able to detect all of them properly, except if the service was stopped before WFN could catch it.

To restore to the assumed previous state, use:. I have however tested it with every new version and I was just pointing out, to try and be helpful, that in the original implementation of the services detection, the things that now require a default rule were detected correctly and specific rules just for those services were created by WFN.

To me it shows there are still flaws in the implementation of services detection and I thought I should point that out.

So you allow it as well. It defeats the main purpose of service detection…. Comodo created a rule for taskhost. So I duplicated that in the WIN 7 firewall rules. Appears taskhost is firing off svchost. My gut is telling me that Avast is using taskhost. Does the WSH rules you created maintain a constant localhost connection?

TCPView shows a connection to localhost port 5xxxx that is always present. Also I am still seeing the same unnamed svchost. I have been running process explorer and the alerts appear to be related to the Network services container that show Crypto, Dnscache, and Nlasvc running. Interestingly, I have never seen Lanmanworkstation listed as running although this is the container where it resides.

I suspect that container is firing off some unnamed service. Forget about my previous comment about localhost. After a reboot, that connection disappeared.

I always forget to reboot after I install a new ver. The unnamed svchost. Works great when running in administrator account! Any way to to get the program running in Win7 SUA? Maybe at least giving blocked notifications? Thanks in advance for any reply. Good work, but when I stopped it IE could connect to the Internet no more. Nor could programs like PeerBlock etc.

Ping, tracert also came with no results. When I resetted Windows Firewall to the defaults everything worked again. Outlook does not suffer from the searching problem because this version does not use UDP to perform searches of a mailbox. Firewall change -- this adds the Outlook executable to this list of programs allowed to communicate through the Windows Firewall.

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Editor's Picks. The best programming languages to learn in Because of 1 and 2, it is important that, when designing a set of policies, you make sure that there are no other explicit block rules in place that could inadvertently overlap, thus preventing the traffic flow you wish to allow. A general security best practice when creating inbound rules is to be as specific as possible.

However, when new rules must be made that use ports or IP addresses, consider using consecutive ranges or subnets instead of individual addresses or ports where possible. This avoids creation of multiple filters under the hood, reduces complexity, and helps to avoid performance degradation.

Windows Defender Firewall does not support traditional weighted, administrator-assigned rule ordering. An effective policy set with expected behaviors can be created by keeping in mind the few, consistent, and logical rule behaviors described above. As there is a default block action in Windows Defender Firewall, it is necessary to create inbound exception rules to allow this traffic.

It is common for the app or the app installer itself to add this firewall rule. Otherwise, the user or firewall admin on behalf of the user needs to manually create a rule. If there are no active application or administrator-defined allow rule s , a dialog box will prompt the user to either allow or block an application's packets the first time the app is launched or tries to communicate in the network. If the user has admin permissions, they will be prompted. If they respond No or cancel the prompt, block rules will be created.

If the user is not a local admin, they will not be prompted. In most cases, block rules will be created. In either of the scenarios above, once these rules are added they must be deleted in order to generate the prompt again.

If not, the traffic will continue to be blocked. The firewall's default settings are designed for security.

Allowing all inbound connections by default introduces the network to various threats. Therefore, creating exceptions for inbound connections from third-party software should be determined by trusted app developers, the user, or the admin on behalf of the user.

When designing a set of firewall policies for your network, it is a best practice to configure allow rules for any networked applications deployed on the host. Having these rules in place before the user first launches the application will help ensure a seamless experience. The absence of these staged rules does not necessarily mean that in the end an application will be unable to communicate on the network.

However, the behaviors involved in the automatic creation of application rules at runtime require user interaction and administrative privilege. If the device is expected to be used by non-administrative users, you should follow best practices and provide these rules before the application's first launch to avoid unexpected networking issues.