Loading ...Revolutionary Security
Posted by Davy Brion on November 4th, 2008
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 
November 4th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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.
November 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
no matter what the real reason is, something like this always comes across as a bug