I have several programs exceptions that work fine.. that doesn't rule out a bug in Vista's firewall though, but testing would be appreciated :D Just in case, the two options that worked were 1) disable the firewall altogether, and 2) creating an allow 'all programs ' exception in the advanced securi...

Creating a program exception was the very first thing I did; didn't work. Sorry, I assumed that was a given.

Actually, Vista's firewall is much more granular than the XP firewall was. You can set pretty much any kind of block or exception for anything. All programs, one program, no programs, ports, inbound and outbound rules, based on if you're connected to a public, private, or domain network, ipsec requi...

Yes, you want Dude to be able to do everything, which is the whole purpose for Program Exceptions with Windows Firewall; but you don't want everyone else on your network to be able to do everything on your computer; that's just me though... So disabling my firewall or enabling exceptions for all pro...

I'm having the same issue on Vista. I noticed this: 1. When Vista firewall is completely turned off, pinging works fine 2. In the Advanced Firewall console when you add an All Programs Allowed exception on all ports it works as well, so I'm wondering if it has to do with another child process or pro...