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After that, if you go to look at the rules and they are correct, you MUST NOT CLICK OK to exit the list of rules. It will keep reordering to move my one Block rule to the top, when I want it on the bottom.Įventually somehow I got the right order to stick. This user interface is now ALSO almost completely broken, as the Move Up and Move Down buttons no longer work properly. It's an almost unimaginably awful user experience, but eventually works, and when it's done it eliminates the phantom disabled extra network.įinally I can add my application rules.
#MAC AVAST FIREWALL SETTINGS WINDOWS#
You have to switch it to Private, at which point it completely hangs all of Windows for about a minute before finally scanning the Home network. At first it finds 2 networks, one of which has a big red X. You can try to pick one of them, but it bounces back to Auto-decide.ģ) Let it scan - this requires a few weird steps, but it will eventually work. It's all just vanished.Īnother glitch - in Settings > Protection > Firewall, it is set to Auto-decide, and cannot be switched to Allow, Block, or Ask. Now that they are gone - I have no idea where they might be, since I can't click Application settings, and the Packet Rules are empty. If I ever checked the rules after updates, I poked around till I found them. Many years ago - maybe 5? - I played with it till I got it to work exactly as I wished. I don't remember if the Firewall rules I set up were in Application Settings or in Packet Rules. In Protection > Firewall, the section called "Apps recently managed" is empty - it says "You haven't managed any apps yet." It is dimmed, so I can not click "Application settings." In Protection > Firewall, it always says "Current Network" - "You're not connected to a network". Either way, it still always shows that it is Off in Protection > Firewall, and cannot be toggled on there. In Settings > Protection > Firewall, it can be toggled on or off. In Settings > Protection > Firewall, in the section called List of network profiles, it states "No items in this list." Is this where a "Home network" would be listed and configured? If so, it's missing. (I set up Avast years ago and for me it's "set it and forget it." Like most users, I'm not truly "interested" in it and pay as little attention to it as I can, so forgive me for not knowing about the home network. Where would I check anything about my home network? When will this be fixed? Will my rules ever be recoverable? So the Firewall that is non-existent and is off, which is actually on but without my rules and is blocking everything, can be turned off to bypass its total blocking of everything. Here in Firewall Settings, if I turn off my firewall which is supposedly "off and does not exist" - then Internet access actually works. List of network profiles says: No items in this list.īut it turns out you can work around this:
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I click the Packet Rules, and my application-specific rules are gone. Again it says "Firewall not available."Ĥ) If you go into Menu > Settings > Protection > Firewall, the firewall toggle is green/on.
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If you click the box with in it you are given the option to Ignore, which I did not try.ģ) On the Notifications Alerts, it says Firewall is turned off, with the same green button to Turn on. There is a big button to TURN ON and if you click TURN ON it says with a red X in a circle "Firewall not available!" No change.Ģ) As prior user says, when I first open Avast a big warning appears on the first screen you see, that Firewall is turned off Fully rebooted Mac, then rebooted Windows.
#MAC AVAST FIREWALL SETTINGS UPDATE#
I have always required it to "Ask when an update is available" but this was ignored.Ģ) No internet activity is passing through AT ALL. 1) Avast updated the program itself yesterday without asking me.