[gptalk] Re: wildcards in program exception path

Matt-

I think you're stuck then unless you can use port exceptions instead. The
firewall exception syntax is pretty limited, unfortunately. 

 

Darren

 

From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Matt Diglio
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:38 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] wildcards in program exception path

 

Hello,


I need to add the javaw.exe program to our Windows Firewall exception list.

The problem I am encountering is that there are several different versions
of this, e.g.

 

C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_06\bin\javaw.exe

C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_05\bin\javaw.exe 

 

Under 'define program exceptions' I added 

C:\Program Files\Java\*\bin\javaw.exe:*:Enabled:Java

It doesn't appear that the * in the path works, and I am presented with the
dialog box to block\unblock the application.

I have verified that the exception has made it to the local machine.

Do I have other options besides adding 1 exception per build ?

 

Thank you for your time.

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