TinyWall Firewall

Discussion in 'other firewalls' started by ultim, Oct 12, 2011.

  1. peters4000

    peters4000 Registered Member

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    Opps ok try again ....
    Hi i installed this program yesterday spent all day reading this post and getting my programs running :thumb: i was very impressed thank you

    Today start my computer and although the service is running the Icon (controller) is not ? when i click from the start menu it gives me this message
    " the program is blocked by group policy contact your admin "

    Looking in program data i have this Error log
    ------- 06/30/2012 09:12:26 -------
    System.OperationCanceledException: The operation was canceled.
    at System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogException.Throw(Int32 errorCode)
    at System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.NativeWrapper.EvtNext(EventLogHandle queryHandle, Int32 eventSize, IntPtr[] events, Int32 timeout, Int32 flags, Int32& returned)
    at System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogWatcher.RequestEvents()
    at System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogWatcher.SubscribedEventsAvailableCallback(Object state, Boolean timedOut)
    at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx)
    at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitOrTimerCallback.PerformWaitOrTimerCallback(Object state, Boolean timedOut)

    Please help i was very impressed with this program

    Peter

    Im running win7 64 bit ultimate

    EDIT

    Apologies after reinstalling and generally playing around I think it was caused by Window 7 Applocker now works great many thanks

    Is this the forum where i could ask questions about TinyWall's workings ?
     
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  2. Veteran

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    Yes, This thread(Beta-testing TinyWall) is for TinyWall :rolleyes:
     
  3. talapantas

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    hi!
    thanks for this great little software!
    i've been using it since i saw it being featured on a popular download site and all i can say is that, it's absolutely great.

    now playing on it urged me to register on this site for some questions and suggestions.
    first question is, in auto-learn mode where you have to run a program(s) so it can be added into exceptions at later time, are all programs allowed on this feature? because i am using tor obfsproxy browser bundle but what happened when i tried auto-learn mode is that, tor is the only program allowed to get through but obfsproxy immediately stopped saying it encountered an error and needs to be closed and adding it manually to exceptions get it to work.

    as for suggestion, i am occasionally moving portable programs from one folder to another, same as moving programs over our network to a couple of computers and sometimes, deleting invalid locations under application exceptions one-by-one is a bit time consuming. hope it will be possible in future releases to do batch jobs by allowing multiple selections and a confirmation dialogue before exceptions can be deleted.

    well thats all for now that i would like to share. thank your for the author of this program for hardening and making it simple to manage windows firewall :thumb:
     
  4. Melf

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    Sorry if this has been covered already - is there a way to create a kind of "apply to descedents" rule?

    I have a program (a game) where the patcher is always the same, but the executable is placed into a different directory (or possibly the directory is renamed) each time it is patched. So making a rule for the patcher and all of its "descendants" would be handy. As it stands, I have to re-allow the game each time it is patched (which is frequently).
     
  5. talapantas

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    @Melf, i think this is one of the things i would like to point out as well
    exactly the same as with flash updater located at
    C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_262_Plugin.exe
    its previous version was blocked because it was named something like FlashUtil32_11_3_300_258_Plugin.exe

    fortunately, auto-learn mode managed to detect it and was added to exceptions, might as well that it would also work for you :)
     
  6. ultim

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    Hi Everyone!

    Sorry for the long delay. I've got many things going on, having just recently moved back to my home town, a bit of pressure from my master's thesis, applying for a job, just to a name few examples. But I'm still alive and kicking and will soon try to address all of your issues.

    As an interesting fact, for a few days TinyWall has been the 2nd most often downloaded firewall on chip.de, probably the largest German download site. It has already been downloaded almost 9.500 times, from that single site alone.

    I'll be back soon,
    ultim
     
  7. peters4000

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    hello ultim thanks for your great Firewall

    For users of Malwarebytes Pro you might like to add the mbamservice.exe to the firewall exceptions
     
  8. cskunk

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    These are a deal breaker for me, and everyone else with more than one screen would benefit. Nice software! Would be great to see these features added in the future.
     
  9. Veteran

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    Welcome back ultim, hope everything goes well :)

    @Peters4000
    Malwarebyte is not a very common app like web browsers and maybe someone doesn't want to see Malwarebytes Pro in TinyWall's default whitelist! like me :D :p You can add it manually to your whitelist.
     
  10. ultim

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    The DevelTool is not supposed to be used by end users. It is a helper tool for me. The only reason I include it in the start menu is for users to use its "Profile Creator" tab, when advised to by me. The profile creator can be used to extract information from applications so that I can include it in TinyWall's database.
     
  11. ultim

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    This was a temporary problem that existed only for a few hours, by a mistake I uploaded the x64-only setup to update server and it could not install on 32bit machines. I corrected it on the same day, try again and you should not have this problem anymore.
     
  12. ultim

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    So it doesn't even work when TinyWall is set to disable the firewall? Then the only reason can be the port-based blocklist. Try to disable that. Otherwise, I am clueless, because in the disabled mode TinyWall allows all and everything, with the exception of the blocklists.

    I actually wonder if this qulifies as a bug. Should TinyWall disable the blocklists when mode is "Disabled"?
     
  13. ultim

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    Yeah, why not. Thanks for the suggestion.


    My idea was for colors to denote danger levels. When I created the icon, there were only the green, yellow and red modes, and from these the red mode was the least secure, this is why it is red. Since then there are also the grey and blue modes, so the logic does not apply anymore, but I did not want to change colors so that exisiting users won't get confused. For the same reason I'm not going to change the colors in version 2, but maybe in a future version.

    It's actually not a bug, but I admit that it can be a bit of a wierd behavior if you do not know about it. Connectify must be changing the network profile on your computer (Home/Work/Private). So when the network profile is changed, TinyWall loads the new profile which does not contain your rules from the previous profile. When you disblae connectify, your network profile is set back to its original state, TinyWall reloads that profile and hence your rules are back.

    So TinyWall is not losing your Application Exception list, it is merely changing it to a new (empty) one, then changing it back. But when changing back, TinyWall also saves Connectify's profile. So you can also add applications to the (yet) empty list when connectify is run, so that you can have a different set of allowed applications while using connectify.
    I hope this helps.

    Let me know if there are any other issues.
     
  14. ultim

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    It is a compromise between computer usability and security. With allow outgoing most of your desktop applications will work without having to whitelist them, but you still get all the inbound protection.
     
  15. ultim

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    Hi talapantas, thank you for your feedback.

    Yes, it should allow all programs. But because of the way auto-learn works, it might take a few seconds for TinyWall to realize that a program accessed the internet. So after using an app in auto-learn, be sure to wait a few secs before switching to another mode to make sure TinyWall has created a rule for it. This is the most likely reason, but of course it is possible that something else is going on. Let me know and I will look into it more carefully if this does not solve oyur problem.

    Nice suggestion! Will do.
     
  16. ultim

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    No such support yet. I'd also be very interested to add such feature, but I have to look into the technical details how and if at all it is possible.
     
  17. ultim

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    Malwarebyte is a well-known (trusted) security app and I'm trying to allow security apps with good reputation in TinyWall by default. This is why Malwarebyte is in the default whitelist.
     
  18. 1000db

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    I've been using TW on a 32-bit Windows 7 laptop and with TW installed I can't connect to it via Teamviewer. I tried adding exceptions in the management console but that didn't work. I tried switching TW to learning mode but that didn't work either. Disabling the fw also didn't work, which puzzles me. However uninstalling TW allowed the remote connection to work. Any ideas?
     
  19. Veteran

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    Thank you ultim, very useful information. I'm proud for using TinyWall, Keep up the good work.
     
  20. Seven64

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    I checked TinyWall update and there are none. How long does it take on your side to get the MPV Host file updated? Has been updated 7/3/12.
     
  21. Vilmalith

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    Changing settings via the right/left click menu don't seem to take affect until you actually open the app and hit apply.

    And I just want to make sure, cause I swear in the beta I had these, but I'm not getting any pops when it blocks internet access for an app/process.


    *this is well running v2.0.1, also managed to kill it. Put it in learning mode cause it was blocking some game installers, searching for the app and then choosing to allow it out wasn't working. Switched it to learning mode, which let the installers start. And then no network connectivity, tinywall service stopped, could not be started. Rebooted, still would not start, uninstalled tinywall.
     
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  22. sukarof

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    I have noticed that it doesnt always work to "whitelist by window" Some programs just wont do that. If I put on learning mode or whitelist the program by file it works, but not by whitelisting by window. It is no biggie but is that supposed to happen?Right now I cant remember what programs it was (Im at work) but I can check it if nessecary..
     
  23. Seven64

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    I notice this also. Most of the time it will work on the second try, and sometimes it will close TW service (grey icon).
     
  24. Vilmalith

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    I also noticed another "issue", I use OpenDNS DNSCrypt. When tinywall seems to block something it kills DNSCrypt sometimes for a split second, other times for a couple seconds. Each time it happens this also kills internet activity, so downloads die, games disconnect, etc.....
     
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