I have a program, sporttracks.exe, blocked by NIS Smart Firewall. I know this because when I turn the firewall OFF for 15 minutes, the program works fine. So.......I turned off Automatic Program Control and then, of course, I had to manually approve of everything for half an hour 'til I finally approved sporttracks.exe.
My question is, now that sporttracks.exe has been authorized, can I turn Automatic Program Control back on and have Sporttracks still be approved, or will it set it back and be blocked again?
I DO NOT see sporttracks mentioned in the History on another computer with NIS and Sporttracks installed and that is NOT blocked by NIS, neither blocked or approved, so I don't know why it's blocked on this computer by NIS.
It could be because of updates being different on the two computers for Norton or sporttracks or even the version of sporttracks so cans you check this out? Did you get sporttracks from the same source for each computer?
I think the firewall may still block sporttracks as the other programmes that were not being blocked you still had to allow.
On the computer with the issue navigate to firewall programme control find the programme concerned and click remove, click apply, click ok close all programmes and restart the computer, launch the programme and it should go back into the firewall programme control.
"My question is, now that sporttracks.exe has been authorized, can I turn Automatic Program Control back on and have Sporttracks still be approved, or will it set it back and be blocked again"?
Yes, now that rules have already been made for this program, you can turn auto back on. The rules will be maintained.