adutchman

I am all for getting security patches and performance updates or improvements!!! However, I'm an IT guy and can handle and manage updating software on my own. I've been doing it for years with every application that I have. Frankly, forcing the update without any sort of notification or a prompt with an option to defer is absurd. My android phone prompts me and allows me to defer, Microsoft does the same. Evernote should follow suit!

This has been my experience as well. This app does not download in the background and then let me know when the update is available. It just flat out, updates whenever it wants to. The only way that I know that an update took place, is there is a pop-up message with what was fixed in the update, etc. I also get prompted to add exceptions to the Windows Firewall at this time as well. I have never added specific exceptions to the Windows Firewall for evernote.exe. This has to stop!!!

The initial install was downloaded directly from the Evernote website. The first time that I installed version 10, I was not prompted to add firewall exceptions. This only happens when the client automatically updates itself.

Once again! When launching the Evernote app today, it processed an automatic update, and I was presented with this pop-up screen again. I have a screen shot this time. I have never added an exception to the Windows Firewall for Evernote before and it seems to work just fine. What does the Evernote app want to have exceptions in my firewall for?

I have been using Evernote for years and have had it running on this Windows computer for more than 3 years. I was recently forced to upgrade to version 10, not ideal, but hey, I'm working thought that issue. (I should have researched for another solution before now, so that's on me). I am here today, because, for the first time ever, when launching Evernote 10 on my PC, I was prompted to add exceptions for it thought the Windows Defender Firewall. (I chose to not allow this). Evernote still seems to work just fine, but I am curious as to why I was prompted to do this in the first place. I would like to add that this happened right after I clicked on the shortcut to launch the application and it updated itself to the latest build. Does anyone have any ideas why I would need to add a specific application exception for evernote.exe in the Windows firewall?