Simplewall: Corrupt log encoding

[kmm2]

On Windows 7 the log is corrupt, it looks like Unicode but no app can open it properly. Check the sample simplewall.log

Tested on simplewall-2.4.6 and simplewall-3.1.

OK on Windows 10.

[henrypp]

Not confirmed. Are you sure log file doesn't touched by thirdparty?

[kmm2]

Default installation of simplewall, no third parties.
Windows 7 set to US/Eng location/encoding.

[kmm2]

More observations:

• if I overwrite the first two 0x00 bytes of the log ("utf-16 le byte order mask") with "{0xFF, 0xFE}", it displays properly.

• according to your source code, there should be a "csv header" just after the "utf-16 le byte order mask" but I do not see it Win7 nor Win10.

[henrypp]

When you remove log file manual and start SW, byte order mask & csv header adds correctly?

[kmm2]

Yes, it works this way, mask/csv OK, thanks!
Will there be a permanent fix for it in a future SW version?

[henrypp]

I need to know who/what action corrupt the log.

If it SW itself, then fix out. If 3rd-party, then i dont know.

[kmm2]

If you want me to test, modify or run something, please let me know.

Thanks for the best Windows firewall!

[henrypp]

If it happpens again just let me know what steps you do.