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henrypp / simplewall

Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.
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When an application updates, keep allowing existing rules to work #31

Closed ryanbr closed 7 years ago

ryanbr commented 7 years ago

Everytime Battlenet/Overwatch updates it shows up as an filter application (unticked), currently I have 3 battle.net.exe processes listed. tl;dr basically if I whitelist battlenet then it updates it should keep the exisiting whitelisted process and not treat the update it as completely new app everytime.

henrypp commented 7 years ago

update does not ignore existing configuration. are you use portable package or not? what files you are overwrite?

ryanbr commented 7 years ago

Example; http://i.imgur.com/iyoo5JZ.png

Using Win10, non-portable version. Also I have multiple copies listed of other applications which also updated. (googleupdate.exe and "google play music desktop player.exe")

Seems everytime an application updates itself, simplewall then believes its a new application and blocks it. Requiring to whitelist it again.

henrypp commented 7 years ago

simplewall gives access to application by its path, maybe because Battlenet/Overwatch after update itself change his path and cannot access to the internet.

ryanbr commented 7 years ago

Same path, nothing changes here. Becomes annoying after a while if I have to keep whitelisting updated apps that should just work. I guess simplewall probably isn't for me

henrypp commented 7 years ago

on your screenshot 1 "battle.net.exe" is checked, but marked red, it means "file not found", and other 2 "battle.net.exe" executables tells me contained in different folders, isn't it?

on tooltip or uncheck "view>show filenames only" o view full path.

maybe isn't for you. i dont know.