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Norman Personal Firewall blocks multiplayer games (or other fullscreen applications) without presenting a pop-up

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Veröffentlicht am: 2007-12-13       Aktualisiert am: 2009-03-11

Operations System(s):
Windows XP 32 bits
Windows Vista 32 bits
Windows 2000

Problembeschreibung

Several popular games include multiplayer functionality. Norman Personal Firewall (NPF) will detect when such games attempt to connect to the Internet, and displays a pop-up dialog to the user. However, as many of these games run in fullscreen mode, they will prevent the pop-up window to obtain focus, and as a result the pop-up will not be visible for the user. In such cases the multiplayer functionality will not work, and/or the game might freeze or crash.

Problemlösung

Alternative 1

The best solution is to create a firewall rule for the game executable before launching the game. This can be done from Norman Security Suite | Personal Firewall | Configure | Rule Editor.

Alternative 2

In some cases the following alternative solution will work:

  1. Disable NPF temporarily (Norman Security | Personal Firewall | Disable)
  2. Start the game (or application). 
  3. Connect to the multiplayer game (or the server). 
  4. Press Alt+Tab to go back to the Windows desktop 
  5. Enable NPF (Norman Security | Personal Firewall | Enable) 
  6. NPF should now give you a pop-up dialog where you can confirm that the game/application is allowed to connect to the Internet 
  7. Alt+Tab back into the game/application.