Firewall Rules Do Not Seem To Be Working

jleppek@cfl.rr.com

when I create an application rule that allows everything, I still get a pop-up asking if it is allowed, and it continues to add rules that are a subset of the first "everything" rule.

second, it always has a popup regarding connections to 127.0.0.1; I have added the loopback address to the trusted zone list but these still pop up.

third, there seems to be a deadlock condition regarding the game of league of legends watch ranked games where (even tho I have created an all allowed rule) the firewall tries to put up a pop up, which causes the system lock up as the screen is black and when I do a ctrl-alt-del into the task manager I can see that BD is active, but the pop up is invisible, and the game is also locked, after about 30sec the game declares it could not be connect.

once again it seems its bypassing a known rule.

I have reset the rules, did not help.

suggestions?

nibb

when I create an application rule that allows everything, I still get a pop-up asking if it is allowed, and it continues to add rules that are a subset of the first "everything" rule.

second, it always has a popup regarding connections to 127.0.0.1; I have added the loopback address to the trusted zone list but these still pop up.

third, there seems to be a deadlock condition regarding the game of league of legends watch ranked games where (even tho I have created an all allowed rule) the firewall tries to put up a pop up, which causes the system lock up as the screen is black and when I do a ctrl-alt-del into the task manager I can see that BD is active, but the pop up is invisible, and the game is also locked, after about 30sec the game declares it could not be connect.

once again it seems its bypassing a known rule.

I have reset the rules, did not help.

suggestions?

After playing with the firewall for a while I jumped to the same conclusion. The firewall rules are not working at all, they just work globally for allow and deny, nothing more. I posted this here which is similar:

http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=39037

First I considered this how the product works, but now that im testing it more and more, with ICMP packets, the firewall is rules do not work with anything. This is serious, as its the main reason I tested the product.

werby3

Hello

This is a FAD (Function As Designed) and there is no issue.

Kindly, read this : http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?sho...st&p=163702 and the link in that post.

Also, there is a request topic here : http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=35580

Regards!

nibb

Hello

This is a FAD (Function As Designed) and there is no issue.

Kindly, read this : http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?sho...st&p=163702 and the link in that post.

Also, there is a request topic here : http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=35580

Regards!

This is by design? This is awful, why even ship a firewall then? I can just stick to the Windows one.

So it basically creates an ALL allow rule for every single instance executed? Even when every single one connects to a different host? Also this does not explain why even after modifying the rule it has no effect either.

If this is by design, this is just absolutely terrible. The number one reason I choose a security software is because of controlling what access the Internet because to be honest I do not trust any signature system to detect custom made rootkits, so at least this way I can manually see when something strange access the Internet. Not to mention in case you are infected, no harm is done if no outside access is allowed.

I had to actually uninstall Bitdefender because internet was terrible slow at some times of the day, and other users noticed this already. I think it has something to do with them filtering all your data via their cloud service, and I cannot possible depend on a third party service for my browsing and connections. My network disks also broke the minute it was installed. And Opera, Opera stopped working as well, minutes to load a simple webpage.

So the firewall is not just very, very basic but it caused me huge problems. So far I think I will just stick with Norton, which has an excellent firewall. Im sad, because Bitdefender looks really nice, and performance on boot and shutdown was the same, no lag, worked fine, but Internet is a big part of my work, and if the software has problems with Internet and connections plus a poor firewall I cannot use it. It seems Bitdefender is more for the home user, not for the corporate users or heavy user that is connected for hours to different networks, VPNs, etc. On my experience it really seems they just want to focus on the newbie or home market. And just reading the forums it seems im correct on this, as people said the firewall had way more options in previous versions, which means they are making is more easier but rendering features away for more techie users.

Georgia

Hello,

A product update was recently released. Your build should be 16.27.0.1763 (please right click on Bitdefender icon from system tray-near the clock-and choose "About". You should see in the left side the build number).

In order for the product update to be installed, you need to reboot your machine(you should see in the Events -> "Reboot required" under the Update module).

Changelog:

http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=35498

http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=35499

Please post back if you have other questions.