This is a problem with Windows Firewall that is very annoying from its introduction. And persist trough several versions of windows. I have two questions: Is it possible to be disabled or at least require confirmation in XP/2003 Server ? Does UAC handles this in Vista/2008 server? If it does not - is there any way to disable it? ...
I have an application that runs as a service and contains an FTP client. It needs to connect to an FTP server that only supports Active FTP. When I attempt to get a list of files or download a file, Windows Firewall is dropping the incoming connection from the FTP server. (I don't believe we had this problem in Windows XP or Windows Vis...
Hi, I want to make a simple program that can restrict any communication over the internet except for some specific ip's. So that the user can eliminate any unwanted traffic. It has to be simple and the user must be able to switch it on and off on the fly. My first thought was to use Windows Firewall and set it up using C#/WPF. And it ...
I want be able to programmatically enable, disable, create firewall rules in Windows Server 2008 R2. What is the object model to modify the firewall rules from .Net/PowerShell? ...
I have a WiX installer project where I have added two firewall exceptions as part of the installer by using the WiX FirewallException. This works great when the client machine is using Windows Firewall, but I got a report that a user failed to get the solution running when using Norman's Personal Firewall. Some question regarding this: ...
Hi An installer with wix I've made uses the FirewallException api to register some components of the package with the Windows firewall, in order to try and prevent firewall popups. It seems that in Windows7, it only registers with exception for the network profile (ie Work/Home/Private) that is currently active when the user runs the i...