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<blockquote data-quote="Gabo352" data-source="post: 991263" data-attributes="member: 95329">Well, today I tried something. Yesterday geminis3 mentioned that the problem may be caused due to a conflict with Avast - it seems like Avast now comes with its own firewall, but I checked and that doesn&#039;t seem to be the case for me, it says I need to install it first; but regardless of that, I tried disabling all Avast shields and changing TinyWall to normal mode, and that seemed to work! I was able to navigate even after enabling Avast again; but then I shut down my computer, and right now after turning it back on again it&#039;s the exact same problem, only that disabling Avast doesn&#039;t seem to do anything anymore? I just don&#039;t get it.Actually, this is the one I&#039;m going to try if I can&#039;t fix my problem. How do you think it compares to TinyWall? Does it also block all outgoing and incoming conections except for whitelisted programs? And it seem to show notifications everytime a program tries to connect to the internet, that&#039;s not bad per se, in fact it seems easier than havin to add an executable (and who knows what processes) manually everytime I try to use an online installer... but how often would WFC show me a notification on windows? I&#039;ve hear there are various windows processes that try to connect to internet; assuming this happens often, is there like a silent mode or something?To be honest I never tried auto-learning mode, I&#039;ve always added exceptions manually after installing a program that requires internet connection or whenever I used an online installer (in this case I removed them afterwards), I&#039;ve never had a problem doing things that way because the only programs I use that require internet conection are my bowsers and some MMO. How does it &quot;learn&quot;? If it have to teach it myself, isn&#039;t it the same as having it in normal mode? If it adds exceptions itself, isn&#039;t there a risk of it allowing internet acces to a program that it shouldn&#039;t?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gabo352, post: 991263, member: 95329"] Well, today I tried something. Yesterday geminis3 mentioned that the problem may be caused due to a conflict with Avast - it seems like Avast now comes with its own firewall, but I checked and that doesn't seem to be the case for me, it says I need to install it first; but regardless of that, I tried disabling all Avast shields and changing TinyWall to normal mode, and that seemed to work! I was able to navigate even after enabling Avast again; but then I shut down my computer, and right now after turning it back on again it's the exact same problem, only that disabling Avast doesn't seem to do anything anymore? I just don't get it. Actually, this is the one I'm going to try if I can't fix my problem. How do you think it compares to TinyWall? Does it also block all outgoing and incoming conections except for whitelisted programs? And it seem to show notifications everytime a program tries to connect to the internet, that's not bad per se, in fact it seems easier than havin to add an executable (and who knows what processes) manually everytime I try to use an online installer... but how often would WFC show me a notification on windows? I've hear there are various windows processes that try to connect to internet; assuming this happens often, is there like a silent mode or something? To be honest I never tried auto-learning mode, I've always added exceptions manually after installing a program that requires internet connection or whenever I used an online installer (in this case I removed them afterwards), I've never had a problem doing things that way because the only programs I use that require internet conection are my bowsers and some MMO. How does it "learn"? If it have to teach it myself, isn't it the same as having it in normal mode? If it adds exceptions itself, isn't there a risk of it allowing internet acces to a program that it shouldn't? [/QUOTE]

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