baummonster

Been testing the ESS build Marcos provided for about a week now and it seems the missing popup issue is completely gone. Even after several days of continuous uptime, I instantly get the message prompt whenever I delete an existing rule for testing purposes. Thanks for the effort you guys out into this, much appreciated

Well after another day of probing, tweaking and generally fiddling around it seems everything is back working properly. I think another un-install, registry cleanup using CCleaner and then doing a clean re-install did the trick. Now I have to setup up every rule again, but at least ESS' popup asking how to handle unknown applications are back. Had a few glitches with programs like MS Silverlight when trying to stream something through it, since Silverlight doesn't seem to launch via .exe directly in this case, but interestingly a quick switch to learning mode seem to have done the trick. I guess (hope) I'm out of the woods again, thanks to everyone involved for their quick and easy support on this!

I don't think so unfortunately, since programs with already existing rules run just fine. It seems to be specific for programs without any rules for them. No matter if I simply delete an existing permit rule for stuff like Thunderbird or Chrome, or if I try some new software I have never used before (SmartFTP instead of FileZilla), no popup dialogue appears and they just can't send/recieve anything. Strangely enough, if I uninstall und then re-install ESS, everything works just fine for an hour or so. Then without any notable change or discernable reason, it turns back to the situation mentioned above. Nonetheless, I'm going to give your solution a try now and hope for the best And of course, thanks for the effort so far!

Hi there, after using ESET SS for something like 2 or 3 years now, the firewall module suddenly started to act up a few days ago. I've always been running the firewall in interactive mode and it worked like a charm, providing a popup for every unknown application sending/recieving data just as it's supposed to. But now it just won't give any popups anymore and simply block every application without a matching rule, bringing new apps to a grinding halt. When I temporarily disable the firewall, everything starts up just fine. Switching from interactive to automatic works, at least as far as I can tell, but I'm not particularly eager on that mode. Any ideas / recommendations to get it back to normal? cheers -baum