Interactive firewall cannot block Lenovo Vantage

[boardlord 0]

Since an update to Lenovo Vantage on Win10 22H2 EIS cannot block (or allow) Lenovo Vantage connections to the web in interactive mode. More specifically the module "LenovoVantage-(VantageCoreAddin).exe". Everytime I open Vantage EIS throws up the dialogue windows to allow/block this file from accessing the web.

 

It doesn't matter whether I allow or deny permanently, this comes up every time I start up the app. "Thanks" to that I've a truckload of rules for the same thing:

 

 

[boardlord 0]

Additional info: This is with EIS 16.1.14, as I need port info in the popups, so I downgraded from 16.2. Nevertheless, the behaviour is the same with 16.2.

[Marcos 4,838]

Please provide logs collected with ESET Log Collector. Does the problem persist if you install EIS and create rules from scratch?

[boardlord 0]

1 hour ago, Marcos said:

Please provide logs collected with ESET Log Collector. Does the problem persist if you install EIS and create rules from scratch?

Log collector output sent in PM.

When I downgraded to 16.1.14, I uninstalled 16.2 and reinstalled the previous version form scratch.

[itman 1,594]

It appears to me that the Eset firewall can't process the "(" and ")" symbols in the file name; i.e. LenovoVantage-(VantageCoreAddin).exe. I have never seen a file name using those symbols although they are allowable characters.

[boardlord 0]

Any updates on this bug? Getting really annoyed with constant access popups related to Vantage (constantly have to purge my FW rules related to Vantage...) I'm afraid that legitimate access request get lost in the noise.