I have just shelled out the money for Bitdefenders product and am also VERY dispointed to see such basic functions not working. It's either "let the program decide" or as Taggg said, you can basically only block it and then seperately open Bitdefender, go to the firewall and have to manually search for a file that MIGHT be the right one.
Not being able to see the full filename and path is a serious oversight and doesnt make me trust in Bitdefenders abilities to get more complicated things done right.
(on a sidenote: the german translation of the program is also very bad!)
I agree. The popup is redundant because 99.999% of the filenames' paths are longer than the width of the entire window, so you only see something like "C:\wind\... ...tment.exe" which is as good as nothing.
BD Total Security looks good so far, but having come from NAV, NOD, MCAF, etc as my first time, they ALL had full path name popups I don't get it why BD doesn't. My guess is that they have to fit in the font style and large text within the design of the popup box or something.
PLEASE update this in future patches so BD becomes PERFECT - thanks!!!
More than 3 years later and this issue has not been addressed. BD just popped up an alert on my system and in addition to not displaying the full file path, it didn't show the file name either - even though there is plenty of room to display it in the alert they use. This is unacceptable. How can something so basic be left uncorrected after so many years? Lazy devs, for one. Indifferent company, for another. There is absolutely no excuse for this.
When will you correct this glaring omission, BD?
I got tired of waiting for them to fix it and switched to Avast Free. I've been pretty happy with their firewall solution.
Turns our, they did fix it … albeit in the most feeble and pretty much useless way. If you hover your mouse over the item, a tool tip appears showing the path. They should allow users to copy the path or export the info (for one or more items) as a text file.
