Vista Advanced Firewall broken?

[Guest]

Hi All,

I'm trying to understand the behavior of the Windows Advanced Firewall in
Vista and it seems I'm just not getting it.

What I did:

- Wrote a small .NET 2.0 program with this code:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.UploadString("http://www.apple.com", "test");
}

- Added a new Outbound Rule with the following settings:

Program: myapp.exe
Action: Allow the connections
Profile: All
Scope: Any, Any
State: Enabled

- Set the main Private Profile state to:
On
Inbound: Block (default)
Outbound: Block

What I expected:

Since the Firewall state (from the Monitoring panel) reads:

"Private Profile is Active"
"Windows Firewall is on.
"Inbound connections that do not match a rule are blocked."
"Outbound connections that do not match a rule are blocked."

...I expected that my app would be permitted to do the POST operation. I
have a rule that "matches", right? Which means, everything else is blocked,
but my program should be permitted, right?

But this is not what happens, my app is blocked - which is what happens when
I set the main switch to block all inbound and outbound - and don't have a
custom outbound rule.

So what's going on?

Any help or pointers appreciated.

thanks

Vista RC2 Build 5744

 

[Guest]

No one out there has tried this? I'm really interested in knowing if this is
really broken.