Hi, I have a network of mixed win7, xp home, and printers,nas, media player, etc and have installed dude on my main win7 (32bit home premium) pc. I really like it except for the never ending popups that display on my screen, even when dude is closed. They are a constant messages saying that a Ip address is blocked, waiting for user input, and they just keep rotating with a different ip address every few seconds. The ip addresses are those of my various bits of eqipment I have. Yesterday I lost connectivity with 1 of my laser printers till I rebooted both pc and printer. I am only using the standard win7 firewall, and the windows 7 firewall control add on. I have let dude create a rule to allow it through both private and public firewalls. I have avast 5 installed.
Any ideas how to stop the constant pop ups??
I have uninstalled dude which is the only way ive found to stop the pop ups.
thanks
Hi, I guess I should apologize for the title of my post, and insinuation that dude is making the popups. even though there are no popups before install and after uninstall. I dont believe I can take a screenshot because the popups only last a second or so. I dont believe they are caused by avast as the dialogue box is nothing like avasts. My guess is its window firewall and perhaps I should turn it off and try installing dude again to test.
OK, i installed Dude, and as long as its installed I get every 20 seconds or so a message such as this
“Blocked Events”
“IPV4 ICMP 192.168.1.1 system prompt the user for a decision corresponding this inbound traffic incoming”
Sometimes it has a number 2 in brackets at the end of the statement.
in 15 20 seconds time i will get another message with the only difference being an ip address of another pc or printer etc, until it goes through all my inventory and proceeds to start the cycle again.
i like the program but how do i stop the notification popups?
Maybe screencap some video. If it happens all the time 30 seconds of video of your desktop should be sufficient to capture a popup, and then you can go through the capture frame by frame.
Hi, further to my last post if I turn windows firewall off there is no popups. I have allowed dude to access my private (and temporarily public) networks in windows firewall. Hope this extra info helps?
this popup is from a firewall program. when you turn on windows firewall, your custom firewall is not used anymore. so uninstall your program, or configure it to allow Dude to work.
Hi, I dont have a custom windows firewall, only the bog standard win7 firewall with firewall control which is an add on for the standard firewall which allows you to easily make changes. When widows 7 firewall control is turned off the popups persist, its only when windows7 firewall is turned off the popups stop. i have allowed dude full access through windows firewall.
