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"Windows defender firewall is using settings that may make your device unsafe"

Windows 10 Version 1809 Build 17763.107
Windows Defender Security Center says:
"Windows defender firewall is using settings that may make your device unsafe"

I reset the firewall and it seemed to work in fixing this.,
Then I applied our standard script which adds firewall settings.
Now the message is back.
But how to find the problem?

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Owen Rubin

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Cliff Galiher

Tough to answer without knowing the script. For all we know. The script is a single line that disables the firewall. Which would obviously be insecure. Worth knowing what's in your script.

hypercube

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Hoping for something more like what's found in Event Viewer, I was afraid that Owen Rubin's suggestion would be a likely approach.
I wasn't going to ask anyone to read the script...

Owen Rubin

Although I’ll bet there are people here who would read it! :-)

hypercube

ASKER

Well, the script has maybe 7 sections that do different things. No section is very long and some are more or less "one liners".
So, I split it up into 7 separate scripts and ran them one at a time after resetting the firewall.
Of course, after all of the scripts had been run, it still wasn't broken!
So then I ran the entire script (in case I'd missed something) and same thing!
It appears that the firewall just needed to be reset to begin with - and we'll never know why.

hypercube

ASKER

Thanks!!

Owen Rubin

That is odd, but glad it works out.

&quot;Windows defender firewall is using settings that may make your device unsafe&quot;

"Windows defender firewall is using settings that may make your device unsafe"