gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » window vista http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows Vista Firewall Controlhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/15/windows-vista-firewall-control/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/15/windows-vista-firewall-control/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:19:26 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6177 The Windows Vista Firewall is definitely better than the Windows XP Firewall because it is able to control incoming and outgoing connections. If you have to rely on the firewall you might feel that it is missing several features known from desktop firewalls. That’s where Vista Firewall Control comes into play. The free version of this firewall management software comes with reduced functionality but introduces one interesting features: The ability to allow or deny access to the Internet for running applications.

Whenever a application requests a connection to the Internet that is not in the list of applications that have already defined firewall rulesets Vista Firewall Control asks the user if he wants to allow or deny that connection.

That’s a known feature from many desktop firewalls. The options are to configure the application to disable or enable all connections or to allow only incoming or outgoing connections.

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The list of applications that already have a ruleset can be displayed and edited or deleted if necessary. The free version of Vista Firewall Control does have several limitations and it would probably be better to download and install a third party Firewall like Comodo instead.

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