I want to be notified on any applications attempting Internet access.

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I’ve tried searching the forums but have not located anything for my needs. It seems I did this in some older versions of CIS but whatever I am doing now is not working. Basically, I do not want trusted applications just accessing the internet without my knowledge.

This is what I have tried and has not worked:

  1. Under Defense +, I’ve brought up the Predefined Security Policies and on the Trusted profile, I’ve marked everything as ‘Ask’. For a trusted application in particular, it still marked the app as “Allow” and put Custom by it without any notification.

  2. Under Firewall and Predefined Firewall Policies, under the Trusted profile, I replaced ‘Allow’ with ‘Ask’ in the actions dropdown box. Same outcome as #1.

I recently dropped Charter’s version of F-Secure due to lack of options from the previous versions and have been using CIS for months now, but since I am trying to config this to suit my needs as they did in F-Secure, I’m not getting or finding what I am looking for.

Can anyone point me in the direction on how to accomplish what I am trying? In F-Secure, you generally had a checkbox that would enable or disable trusted application support, I just want to be notified before something hits the internet for the first time.

Thanks,
Rob

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One thing I have noticed that I did not mention, it appears to copy some type of “Custom” policy in which I have not defined any custom policies as this is a new installation from yesterday. It’s not even using a Trusted policy when creating these entries in the firewall. Can someone shed light on that?

Thanks,
Rob

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wow… it’s amazing how I do this everytime… post for help and figure it out 5 minutes later… :stuck_out_tongue:

Well anyway, it appears to be Custom Policy Mode under Firewall Behavior Settings under Advanced Tab that gets me what I want (this of course is under the Firewall Tab of the Main App), I had it set to Safe Mode. I’m almost positive you still have to set the Trusted profile to ‘Ask’ under the predefined policies in the Firewall to get it to work like I described in the previous posts.

I hope this helps others that wondering as well.

Thanks,
Rob