Windows Firewall complaining

[Mellnik]

Whenever I start a compiled client program with raknet, Windows Firewall opens and asks to whitelist the program. Why is that? It is just client program connect to a server. It even happens when using the example code.

[Klaim]

That's normal, you have an executable from nowhere that tries to use the network so the default behaviour of the Windows firewall is to make sure you are aware of this and let you allow it or not. You can change the behaviour in the firewall settings if you want.
It will ask permissions once per file path, so if you build an exe and run it and run it again it will not ask again. However if you build in Release mode then in Debug, each one have a different path so it will ask once.

[Mellnik]

But I didn't get this message with other internet applications like Firefox, Skype, GitHub Windows or SA-MP/MTA:SA (uses RakNet).

[ensiform]

Those applications are signed and trusted so they are allowed by default I think.

[Mellnik]

Uh are you all united against me? Ok, another example: Compiling code with selfcompiled libcurl doesn't ask me too.

[larku]

That'll most likely be because lubcurl will be using port 80, or 443, etc all trusted ports.