Windows 7 Firewall Control - Anyone else use this?

Firegod · 14 Feb 2010 at 18:55

Hi all

Sorry if this has been asked many a time before. Just put it on my PC and it's quite handy. Thought I'd pop on and ask though, do these settings look correct?

Thanks!

Oh, link for those that don't have it and would like to try it out:-

http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/order.html

bledd · 15 Feb 2010 at 11:54

I like the idea of it, but the website puts me off, bigtime

It really should have basic outgoing connections built in properly..

brakeinup · 16 Feb 2010 at 14:16

I tried it on W7 - it was OK but I ended up removing it and manually control the in built firewall (block outbound connections).

Bane · 2 May 2010 at 12:55

Is the free version of this Firewall Control a 3rd party firewall? Or is it just a nice front end for Windows Vista/7 built in firewall?

Would like to enable some outbound filtering, but when I tried manually configuring Vista firewall it ended up a broken mess. So a prompt with accept or deny would be nice, but I don't want to replace the Vista firewall with something like Comdo and another full replacement.

theheyes · 2 May 2010 at 13:09

It replaces the Windows Firewall, which is itself a front end for stuff already built into Windows.

Ratbag · 2 May 2010 at 13:30

theheyes said:
It replaces the Windows Firewall, which is itself a front end for stuff already built into Windows.

Erm, it is simply a front end for the windows firewall. I use the free version.

theheyes · 2 May 2010 at 15:47

I think "Windows 7 Firewall Control" is a misnomer, if it's implementing it's own rules then it doesn't really make sense for it to leverage Windows Firewall.

Broken Hope · 2 May 2010 at 17:39

Bane said:
Is the free version of this Firewall Control a 3rd party firewall? Or is it just a nice front end for Windows Vista/7 built in firewall?

Would like to enable some outbound filtering, but when I tried manually configuring Vista firewall it ended up a broken mess. So a prompt with accept or deny would be nice, but I don't want to replace the Vista firewall with something like Comdo and another full replacement.

Windows includes a filtering platform which the windows firewall uses, Windows 7 Firewall control uses this same filtering platform, as said before it's basically just a different front end for the built in filtering platform.