And also, the point that keeps being ignored although I've made it several times:

Using a firewall to prevent Poser 8 from talking over the Internet is pointless. It doesn't talk over the Internet.

So why would you bork it up using shotgun methods to prevent it from doing something it doesn't do anyway?

Poser 8 DOES NOT TALK TO THE INTERNET.

There is absolutely no reason for you to try to prevent it. If you insist on using a tool incorrectly, blocking Poser from using the TCP stack, then you should just stop doing that.  It makes about as much sense as preventing it from talking on the Internet by DELETING poser.exe. Yes, that surely will prevent it from going over the Internet, no doubt about it.

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