Right now I reverted back to 7.0.1456. I was using the latest version on 11/15, however after initially appearing to work it went right back to blocking all connections. So I uninstalled and reinstalled my old version 7.0.1456 and everything works normally.

I don’t want to reinstall 2014 until AFTER it’s confirmed that this is a known bug and has been confirmed to be fixed. In the meantime I’ll continue using version 7.0 and will just update my virus definitions (but not update the program itself)