Desktop Firewall 8.5 (skipped rules & patch4 distribution)

[TheWOneAndOnly]

Hi

Many rules that I distribute via epo are skipped by the firewall on the desktops???

example:
-I created following 2 rules (in epo console):

Rule 1:

• -Description:Allow Web Outgoing
  -Actionermit
  -Protocol:TCP
  -Direction:Outgoing
  -Application:OUTLOOK.EXE (Match: That Path always and not the fingerprint) Drive: Any Path:Any
  -Local Service(s):Range 1024 - 65535
  -Remote Service(s):List 80, 443, 135
  -Address: Any
  -Log matching traffic: Enabled
  -Active: Enabled

Rule 2:

• -Description:Block ALL Other Outlook traffic
  -Action:Block
  -Protocol:All IP Protocols
  -Direction:Either
  -Application:OUTLOOK.EXE (Match: That Path always and not the fingerprint) Drive: Any Path:Any
  -Local Service(s):-
  -Remote Service(s):-
  -Address: Any
  -Log matching traffic: Enabled
  -Active: Enabled

-I distribute both rules (that goes all fine)
-Then I start Outlook on a client and chack the logs of the firewall with following conclusions:

• -Rule 1 works fine
  -Rule 2 is totally ignored???

-What I did then to monitor the problem (on the client side):

1) -I duplicate rule 2 (I call it "Rule 3")
-Then I edit the Application of the rule (because I can't select the "Match" (rule handling) of a local created rule)
so the rule becomes:

Rule 3:

• -Description:Block ALL Other Outlook traffic (local rule)
  -Action:Block
  -Protocol:All IP Protocols
  -Direction:Either
  -Application:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE
  -Local Service(s):-
  -Remote Service(s):-
  -Address: Any
  -Log matching traffic: Enabled
  -Active: Enabled

-Then I start Outlook on a client and chack the logs of the firewall with following conclusions:

• -Rule 1 works fine
  -Rule 2 is totally ignored???
  -Rule 3 works fine ??? (Why is the identical rule 2 skipped?)

2) -Then I changed the sequence of the 2 rules on the eposerver (rule2 followed by rule1) and distributed it
so the sequence now is:

• -Rule 2
  -Rule 1
  -Rule 3

• -guess what: Rule 2 works 100% OK

So my conclusion till now is that I CAN'T trust this firewall because it skips (critical) rules.



I'm using:
-Eposerver 3.5 (+patch5)
-MDF 8.5 + patch 4


Some other dissapointing topics are that:
-MDF 8.5 patch 4 doesn't get distributed via epo???
-When I install MDF 8.5 patch 4 locally via the setup, the About still shows the old build nr 260 instead of 428
but when I check the build version of the files "McAfeeFire.exe", "FireSvc.exe" & "FireTray.exe" in the properties it shows the correct 428


Anyone noticed same strange behaviours?
Or better, has any solutions?


I'm testing MDF 8.5 for a few weeks now.
I started very optimistic but the more I test it the more disapointed I get.


regards
Dave