Well…now I’ve found a problem.
I blocked Opera completely through the main UI, set it to “ask about all”.
Ran Opera…it loads pages, how?..and then finally, about 3 minutes later, the firewall cuts off the flash audio I played to further test connection, and asks for an Opera connect?
Even better now…the flash begins playing again, till the end of the track, then I get another “ask” pop-up.
This repeats. Correct me if I’m wrong, but a policy of “Ask about all connections” should not allow anything unless I tell it to?
This behavior doesn’t happen with IE or Firefox, if I set them to “ask about all”, they can’t load until I allow.
Any suggestions?
If Opera can get by my FW, I’d imagine it can’t be that hard for something else less user-friendly.
Still doing it today…no less alarming after a nights sleep.
I hope it at least blocks incoming…
A firewall that does not block what it is told to block is no firewall at all.
edit: deleted Opera’s entry in the FW app. rules, then the whole group.
Opera still gets access.
Correct. But before the pop-up even displayed, I can surf/browse the web for about 3-4 minutes.
This was with my application rules set to “ask about all connections”. Then the pop-up comes, stops connection of whatever is running.
Am I wrong to think this should cut off all access till I say otherwise? This behavior does not happen with Firefox or IE.
The only AIS settings I have ever changed are the firewall settings, only in the Application Rules section.
(Apart from the main Home/Work/Airport settings, set to “Work/medium risk”)
All the real-time shields I have left as default.
No proxy running here.
Hi, can you verify that it is really the opera.exe process that is accessing the web during the playback? E.g. with tcpview.exe ( http://live.sysinternals.com/Tcpview.exe ) or with the connections list in the firewall ? Thanks a lot. I will try it here in the meantime as well.
Tried it again today after startup. A little better, it only loaded about half the elements on the page (Loaded all text, about half the interactive features, No pictures), before stopping access and showing the pop-up.
Then deleted Opera rules/group, tried again. Bad behavior returns, access with no permission, for full minutes. Something else I noticed. During the time I am surfing without firewall permission, every page that I try shows “blank page” for a split second before it loads up.
Hi,
I am not able to reproduce the problem here. My opera browser does not display any single page element, until I click ALLOW in the popup.
What firewall mode do you use? Could you please send me your rules.xml and config.xml from "C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software\Avast5\fw" folder for review? Do you use any other program, that might interfere? Popup blocker? Add-remover? Proxy server? Any 3rd party firewall?
Firewall is set at “Work-Medium Risk”
Avast! is the only active shields I have, except Windows Defender which has been turned off for at least a month or 2. No other 3rd party firewall, proxy, pop-blocker or add-remover. (apart from AdBlockPlus in Firefox, but to my thinking that shouldn’t matter)
Lastly, where/how did you want those two files sent, as you didn’t specify?
I’ve thought about trying the beta, but this is my only functioning pc, since I turned my old laptop into a Smoothwall. So I’m a little cautious of testing uncharted waters
Really, I only use Opera for maybe 10% of my browsing, it is a luxury, not a necessity. But this oddity has me curious, and if its some kind of flaw I could avoid in the future, I would like to root out the cause
