{"id":126,"date":"2019-07-18T01:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2019-07-18T02:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T07:45:01","slug":"windows-firewall-control-downhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/2019\/07\/18\/windows-firewall-control-downhill\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Firewall Control -> downhill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is slightly messed up behavior:<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"WFC Auto-Update checkbox not respected and Event Viewer shows Update failed\" src=\"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/nextcloud\/index.php\/s\/jknoYWrDmSkJAzS\/preview\" \/>My\u00a0firewall control app, i have it blocked tho.<br \/>\nHave updates unchecked, still tryin to update itself smh&#8230; (had to find out about it through Event Viewer)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m surprised it just didnt go around the rule I used to block itself&#8230;<br \/>\nSo I checked the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binisoft.org\/changelog.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Changelog<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; Fixed: Checking for updates is made through http instead of https.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Version 6.x is out (up from 5.4.1) &#8211; But no mention of disobeying the update checkbox&#8230;.<br \/>\nThe company Binisoft does good work, and was recently taken over by Malwarebytes, and that change is supposed to ease our mind so we can prove its not communicating back home to the mothership nefariously over HTTPS&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Then theres this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Version 5.4.1 was detected, please uninstall it first. Upgrade Update Failed\" src=\"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/nextcloud\/index.php\/s\/5TMsPSiLeC4EdT5\/preview\" \/><br \/>\nThat is weird. Like wtf changed so much that i gotta remove it entirely, cant just update?<br \/>\nPossibly just the EULA? The installation folder changed as well to include MalwareBytes in the name (and the service name too)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sketched out they&#8217;re gonna ruin this program for me&#8230;\u00a0it was great and I recommended it all the time. Going to reserve my judgment for later, but things are going downhill though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is slightly messed up behavior:My\u00a0firewall control app, i have it blocked tho. Have updates unchecked, still tryin to update itself smh&#8230; (had to find out about it through Event Viewer) I&#8217;m surprised it just didnt go around the rule I used to block itself&#8230; So I checked the latest Changelog&#8230; &#8211; Fixed: Checking for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/2019\/07\/18\/windows-firewall-control-downhill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Firewall Control -> downhill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa73B2-22","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genr8.pw\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}