Firewall - Info about BLOCKED items is useless ... 2 issues
1 - You need to add a "copy and paste" feature to the text info in the firewall warning popup window..
Explanation - the firewall popup warning window asks you if you want to "block or allow" an app to access the net,,, but what the app actually is is a mystery to the average non computer user, for example i basically got this firewall popup message
" windows/s...ectProvider.exe is sending a tcp"
I have no idea what the above app is by the info provided by the firewall,, and my guess is that the average person out their dont either.., We cant even copy and paste it into google to get info about what it is,,, BD's Firewall popup text cant be copied and pasted, it wont allow a simple copy of the above text so i can paste it into google search.
Please if you can make the text in firewall warning window able to be copied to a clipboard that would be helpful to us in making our decision to block it or not.
2 - "View application" does does not provide enough info to help you decide to block or allow firewall access.
Explanation - when i clicked on "View application" for the above mentioned app it opened up the "system 32" folder which had a gazillion folders in it all of which had confusing names which the average non-computer geek would not ever understand (i have no clue what these computer lingo names on these folders mean or are ) ... and to make matters worse the name of the above mentioned file "windows/s...ect provider.exe is sending a tcp" was no where to be seen on that list in the system 32 folder either..
in fact i dont think Bitdefender's popup firewall warning window even shows you the full proper name of the application that its asking you to block or allow. for example the part in the name that has the dots " S...ectProvider" is this really the full name of the app or are the dots ",,," hiding part of the actual name ? an incomplete name might just make it even harder to look up on the net.
so with that kind of info or "lack of " info being given to the costumer how are we ever supposed to make an informed safe decision about blocking or allowing software to pass thru bitdefedners firewall ???
i think even some of bitdenders updates got blocked by me because their names did not plainly state that they were "Bitdefender related" so i did not recognize them as safe to allow, so i unknowingly blocked them. you may want to consider a identifier of some sort on all you updates so we know its bitdefender related so we can allow it and not block it.
Conclusion - you may need to consider a better method for your costumers (who are not computer programmers) to identify what should or should not be blocked by the firewall.
Usable information methods for the average costumer , such as easy copy and past to help the costumer research on the net the questionable apps integrity. And make the the "VIEW APPLICATION" feature actually highlight the exact folder in the computer that contains the app in question, so that the customer can at least see and identify the exact suspect folder and then with that info they can use the internet to find out if its safe or not to allow it ....
as it stands now the info that the firewall pop-up warning window provides is absolutely useless in helping us decide if the app is safe to allow or not. its all just a bunch of computer geek lingo that is meaningless to us... safe, not safe, who knows ???
I'm surprised that at least a simple copy and paste of the full name of the suspect folder was not do-able in the Firewall popup info window.
hope these ideas help you to improve, and us to use your product....cheers.