dimis 0 Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Hey guys, I have plenty of settings in the windows firewall so is there a way to transfer them to eset personal firewall? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 4,910 Posted August 20, 2017 Administrators Share Posted August 20, 2017 The option to also evaluate rules from Windows firewall is enabled by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimis 0 Posted August 20, 2017 Author Share Posted August 20, 2017 16 minutes ago, Marcos said: The option to also evaluate rules from Windows firewall is enabled by default. There seems to be going something wrong. I have blocked mozilla firefox with windows firewall and it can't connect the internet(as expected), but when I enable eset personal firewall it seems that the rule is by-passed. So the option to evaluate the rules from windows firewall doesn't work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 4,910 Posted August 20, 2017 Administrators Share Posted August 20, 2017 Only allowing rules from Windows Firewall are honored. You'll need to create block rules in EIS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimis 0 Posted August 20, 2017 Author Share Posted August 20, 2017 You should modify your firewall to read and ''understand'' the export list from windows firewall. I have literally more than 200 banned exe applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itman 1,627 Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 3 hours ago, dimis said: There seems to be going something wrong. I have blocked mozilla firefox with windows firewall and it can't connect the internet(as expected), but when I enable eset personal firewall it seems that the rule is by-passed. So the option to evaluate the rules from windows firewall doesn't work The Eset Personal Firewall setting of "Also evaluate rules from Windows Firewall" only applies to WF inbound rules, not outbound rules, as noted by the context help popup i.e. the "i" symbol shown in the below screen shot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimis 0 Posted August 21, 2017 Author Share Posted August 21, 2017 So it is clear that ESET must modify its firewall to read the export rules file from windows firewall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itman 1,627 Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 1 hour ago, dimis said: So it is clear that ESET must modify its firewall to read the export rules file from windows firewall "I wouldn't hold my breath" on this one. I know of no AV vendor that provides for automatic conversion of Win firewall rules into equivalent vendor product firewall rules. More so in the case of outbound firewall rules since most Win firewall users run it with the allow all outbound activity setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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