A little background. I have asterisk running on CentOS in VMWare Workstation on my Windows 7 workstation with Endpoint Protection 12. When reimaging my machine and installing the new version of Endpoint, the network thread protection seems to constantly want to intervene when my Cisco IP phone starts to make it's connection to the IP assigned to the VMWare VM. Since the adapter is setup as bridged, and has it's own individual IP aside from the one assigned to my workstation, I thought creating an exception rule would alleviate this problem. However, it hasn't. I believe the error that it produces is that it's detecting a port scan.
I want to prevent this from happening, but not hinder the functionality of Endpoint by completely turning off the network intrusion prevention component of it, etc. Has anyone else had this issue pop up with VM's? Trying to figure out what a good course of action is to properly prevent this false positive from occurring.