Disable Windows Firewall notifications

[Ishay]

Hi!

I would like an option to disable the windows firewall notification of our application. There is an interface to do it and I know that I can implement a custom install dll.

My question is: Do you plan to support such a feature? Maybe msi support it inherently?

~ Ishay

[ciprian]

Hi,

Unfortunately Windows Installer doesn't support such a feature.

We are currently working on implementing features that are supported by Windows Installer.

We will add your request on our wish list of features to be implemented.

All the best,
Ciprian

[gordonf]

I don't know if this is supported by Windows Installer - maybe it's supported in version 3.1? Certainly not in 2.0 because this was out before the XP SP2 firewall, which supports per-application exceptions, became available.

You could always script a custom action to add a firewall rule. I believe the firewall APIs are public...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/prod ... evimp.aspx

...you could script an application exception into the firewall. This would probably throw up a dialog prompting the user to confirm the request, but then it would happen during installation and not run-time.

[ciprian]

Hi,

Thank you for your suggestion.

We plan to implement a list of commonly used custom actions. They will be available in a future release.

We will consider adding this feature too.

All the best,
Ciprian

[Daniela Petrescu]

Hi,

This feature has been added to Advanced Installer 6.1. You can read more about latest features added to Advanced Installer 6.1 on http://www.advancedinstaller.com/release-6.1.html.

Regards,
Daniela
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