Norton Firewall and BPC Admin

Hi
One of my client has problems with Norton Firewall (Version 8.7.4.79) and BPC Admin (v5.2). When the Firewall is on, even at the lowest security level and with OSoftAdminMain.exe in "secured progam" it does not want to log on!
The solution is to turn off the firewall.
I was just wondering if someone has this problem?
Nic

Hi Nicolas Argente,
please setting the Norton Firewall and Antivirus to unblock the SAP BPC AddIn such as:
EV4DMMPM, EV4Excel, Ev4ExcelPM,Ev4Excel.dll.
You can find that files on client directory: C:\Program Files\BPC
I hope my information can help you.
Thanks,
Wandi Sutandi

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