EISUser

Can we have ESET provide an official downgrade version link of EIS version 16.1.14?
Very frustrated over the whole firewall debacle, with v17 being solution doesn't help current affected users.

The issue of interactive mode not working as intended is still there in 16.2.13.0 (Win 10 Pro). After the initial update to 16.2.x rules were all forgotten and firewall profiles are basically useless. All new rules have been automatically assigned to all profiles, wiping out months of carefully selected behavior of programs, based on firewall profile. To say I am furious at this update will be a great understatement. Please return the functionalities to 16.1.x level and make sure someone in the beta channel uses interactive firewall mode. This debacle should not have ever happened.

Why in interactive firewall popup we can't select IPs and ports anymore when making a rule that have values based on connection attempt that triggered popup?
All that is available is "Apply to child processes" and "edit rule before saving" which opens another window in which there are no values for local and remote IPs and ports.
This is so disastrous both as bad UI/UX with additional clicks needed and as functionality that has been removed as if ESET is trying to actively prevent users from using Interactive firewall by making it unusable.
Unbelievable they would push this drastic change.

There is an option in advanced setup to block ESET product from making automatic version upgrades, it's under Update > Profiles.
I had to find EIS version 16.1.14 elsewhere, since ESET themselves don't provide old versions, at least publicy. Of course I checked file signatures to make sure it's the official installer and not tampered.
 
I use interactive mode. I tried many things but I didn't take note, so to stop wasting time, I just downgraded the version altogether and now everything is working as intended.