New Update Defender Hardening Console Executable

[Avethil]

@Trident
If in the future I should run again Deep Firewall scan because I will install new programs and I'll wish to scan them, should I delete all rules first or I can simply run the scan and Deep Firewall will add the rules for the new programs it will find ?

 

[Trident]

@Trident
If in the future I should run again Deep Firewall scan because I will install new programs and I wish to scan them, should I delete all rules first or I can simply run the scan and Deep Firewall will add the rules for the new programs it will find ?

You can run a scan and it will just add the new programs. When you restart the application it performs rule deduplication and I will add cleanup soon so it gets rid of removed programs.

 

[Avethil]

When you restart the application it performs rule deduplication and I will add cleanup soon so it gets rid of removed programs.

So, if I understand correctly, (sorry, English isn't my native language, I'm Italian) Deep Firewall scan doesn't create duplicate rules but currently it doesn't have a feature for purging rules that refers to programs / executable that don't exist anymore.

 

[Trident]

So, if I understand correctly, (sorry, English isn't my native language, I'm Italian) Deep Firewall scan doesn't create duplicate rules but currently it doesn't have a feature for purging rules that refers to programs / executable that don't exist anymore.

Yes, the auto-cleanup will be added to the next version.

 

[Avethil]

I just run a Network scan from "Scan and Clean" menu but it scanned 0 items.

 

[Avethil]

From the same menu I ran both a Total Care Scan than a Aggressive Scan. They completed successfully and Defender Hardening Console automatically saved a html report of the latest scan in folder C:\Users\WindowsUsername\Documents\Helios Reports. The Aggressive Scan was very quick (2859 scanned items in 19.8 seconds), I guess the reason is that I had run the Total Care Scan some minutes before (2224 scanned items in 206.2 seconds) so the Aggressive scan could benefit from some sort of "scanned items cache".