Revolutionary Security

2 commentsWritten on November 4th, 2008 by
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Just restarted Visual Studio... no other changes were made to my system since the last time i started Visual Studio. And all of a sudden, i got this:

Microsoft doesn't get nearly enough credit for their revolutionary security practices... great job guys, thanks for keeping us all safe ;)

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  • http://blogs.windowsclient.net/bestsnowman/default.aspx Matt Newman

    The key here is the line at the bottom that says “This program has already been blocked or unblocked for a different network location”

    Basically the Windows Firewall knows its been dealt with before, but something happened with the network stack to make it think it was a different network. Since its a domain network it was probably caused by a change in network topology (I’ve seen it happen just because an IP changes) or because the network got a case of amnesia and forgot the network long enough to result in this prompt.

    Another theory is the Windows Firewall team has a sense of humor and does this to get the conspiracy types excited about apps phoning home.

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    no matter what the real reason is, something like this always comes across as a bug :)

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