I am having to turn off my firewall for every one of the different .exe files that I try to download.
It downloads with my firewall on (typical rules for ASC and ASC agent to get thru) for several hundred MB or a GB in some cases, then once again the .exe will be complete, and on the instantiation of the next .exe to download I have to once again be there at my computer instead of doing something else, and turn off the firewall for a few seconds, then I can turn it back on while it downloads the rest of the .exe.
If my firewall had different profiles I would make one just to block everything I could. However I am stuck with a profile which only lets thru what I say. I want to block things like Windows Update and other nagging programs while I download the stuff. So how can I do it? What are you guys using, because I watch the connections, there is nothing I can do to let it thru automatically at the start of the.exe files. The firwall must be disabled (for my particular firewall program). There is nothing in the connection history that I can specifically enable (because of limitations of my firewall app I am using). It’s really impractical and not at all ideal. Used to be you could do it, I think without just turning off firewalls.
What is the security layer connecting to that I can’t use the firewall at the same time? I tried everything including enabling the system thru, and I was seeing connections to china and norway and ireland…rather than just the usual Netherlands I am seeing all the time when system is not allowed thru.
So I deleted that system rule so it can’t let china and norway and all those other places in, since it doesn’t make a difference anyway to the ASC.
What is the program that needs to connect. Yes I know my firewall is lousy because a good firewall allows domain whitelisting. Just my situation because there is no decent firewall for Windows.