Bitdefender Is2008 Firewall Profile Name.

I run BDIS2008 as well under Vista and the firewall profile feature is a big pain ! It keeps resetting my profile every once in a while and then I have to allow all my applications again. This is such a pain !

And the situation gets even worst when I start "Microsoft ActiveSync" or "Check Point VPN-1 SecuRemote/SecureClient". BD does not handle very well multi-networks configuration.

I have to say that the situation got a little bit better since I upgraded to version 11.0.16 but still my profile get reset every once in a while.

And I have no idea what the "Apply the same generic profile to all networks" is supposed to do because however I check it or not, any new network would ask me permissions for all my applications again.

Hi Andrei Dumitru

Could you please detail what you mean by "as long as you don't enter a network for which you have already configured a custom profile" ? Do you mean "enter" its name ? or connect back to that network ?

How do you exactly "build rules for the generic profile" ?

Thanks

-you go and check the option "aply tha same generic..."

-you are still on the default_untrusted_1 profile, because it is already there for the network you are in

-but when you log on to another/new network, you'll see that you'll have a generic profile, for which you have to build rules

-the network will stay on generic profile as long as you don't enter a network for which you have already configured a custom profile, like default_untrusted_1 profile

When was the generic profile feature added into BD-2008? I have an open ticket related to this and BD support never mentioned they finally got around to fixing it.

Also, does BD maintain a release history indicating what changes have been made to the programs? The release history on this forum only indicates which program files have changed (see http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=3348).

i don't know if the changes will be submitted also along with the program files. The Generic Profile feature was introduced with the update to the 11.0.16 version on Bidefender.

When was 11.0.16 introduced? The last entry on the update page is for 11.0.15:

Can one of the moderators prepare a list of the significant changes since BD-2008 was officially released?

Hello,

There is a simple trick to keep off firewall name profile change.

Assume that your generic profile named 'default' with your own parameters.

If the firewall name profile change like 'default_untrusted_1', just enter the previous name 'default' (pay attention to uppercase letters) and clic Rename. Like this your previous profile is resetting with all your parameters.

Cordially,

Yann

Tom,

i don't know if the changes will be submitted also along with the program files. The Generic Profile feature was introduced with the update to the 11.0.16 version on Bidefender.

giom,

sorry for the late answer. For the firtst question, i ment connect back to that network. And for "the second, build the rules means to add the rules normally, just as you did before for other profiles, but this time the rules will be "built" for the generic profile. but maybe you figured it out by now, anyway.

apache2k,

it doesn't matter what type of IP you are assigned, i gave that advice because the profile resetting issue was present mostly on computers with dynamic IP. so there is no problem using generic profile with a static IP

I had to reinstall my bitdefender, I had the spanish version but it hadn't updated to the 11.0.16.

I have the "apply to generic profile" option checked, but every time it resets to a new default network doesn't remember the old rules, and I have to do teach the firewall again. Do I have to do something else?

Thanks for the help!!