windows firewall

[cindylee]

Hi - Can anyone explain this to me.... I had a service running that started several applications. Unknown to me, the Windows firewall was blocking these applications from making critical connections to each other. As a result, my system was not performing as expected. At no time was there a windows popup saying that these apps were being blocked. During the course of investigating the "flakiness" of these apps, the service was stopped, and the apps were started interactively using a DOS window. As they were starting up, the windows firewall warning came up, saying they were blocked. I unblocked them and everything started fine and worked as expected. Now, when they are started as a service, everything is good. How come I never got the firewall popup when it was being started as a service???
Thanks
Cindy

 

[PScottC]

What account were the services running under? It seems probable to me that the Windows firewall doesn't send warnings for applications running under the system account. It's not that smart of an application.

PSC

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[cindylee]

Hi - Thank you for your reply. The service was started under the same user as I was logged in as - not the SYSTEM account. Any other ideas? This is puzzling to me, and the source of many headaches
Thanks
Cindy