Serious Discussion Fort Firewall

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.12.13

• UI: Auto-restart on profile's drive re-mount.
• UI: Portable: Can Install from My Fort: About.
• Installer: Fallback to "copy" when "robocopy" fails.

 

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.13.0

• UI: Portable: Fix service/driver handling on startup.
• UI: Tray/Options: Add "Block Traffic" menu.
• UI: AppInfoManager: Use "noCache" flag.
• UI: Tray: Update icons.

 

[oldschool]

@tnodir You do a fantastic job of updating FF regularly.

 

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.13.1

• UI: Update: Always create "logs/SetupLog.txt" file.
• UI: Use "restart.bat" to restart clients.
• UI: Add "-c zone update" command line argument.

 

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.13.2

• UI: Programs: Add "Convert to Wildcard" menu item.
• UI: Update: Try to re-download on timeout.

 

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.13.3

• UI: Programs: Show "Zones" column, instead of "Parked" (Add "Parked" filter).
• Installer: Set "Auto-run for all users" (with Service checked) only on initial setup.

 

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.13.4

• Fix SvcHost group services handling (Group services was identified as some service from the group).

Attention: You have to make trackable the required services by Programs: Services window.

 

[zeronoshogun]

I can only promise that I’m working on the “Ask to connect” on spare time. No timeline.

from this post on 29 october 2023. to today. is this option working already? i can see it in the GUI options. but in gray.

 

[tnodir]

from this post on 29 october 2023. to today. is this option working already? i can see it in the GUI options. but in gray.

No, not yet implemented.

 

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.13.5

• UI: ProgramAlert: Add "Menu" button.
• UI: Programs: Warn for "Apply same rules to child processes" option.
• UI: Update: Show minimized console window of restarting client (for Windows 7 x64).
• UI: restart.bat: Use "timeout", instead of "ping" for delays.
• Zones: Update TAS-IX MRLG query.

 

[lokamoka820]

I tried to install it, and it gave me error "this program is not compatible with HVCI (Core Isolation)".

 

[tnodir]

I tried to install it, and it gave me error "this program is not compatible with HVCI (Core Isolation)".

It's expected. See the "System Requirements".

 

[silversurfer]

@tnodir
Any chance soon for the filtering mode: Ask To Connect as mentioned in User Guide

 

[tnodir]

@tnodir
Any chance soon for the filtering mode: Ask To Connect as mentioned in User Guide

Not soon. I've to implement Rules per App first. And then Ask To Connect.

Difference of "Ask To Connect" is it pauses the connection until user's decision.

Many firewalls do not pause the connection anyway (e.g. WFC, Tinywall, Simplewall, Glasswire) and many users do not notice about it. Do you really need it?

 

[silversurfer]

Not soon. I've to implement Rules per App first. And then Ask To Connect.

Difference of "Ask To Connect" is it pauses the connection until user's decision.

Many firewalls do not pause the connection anyway (e.g. WFC, Tinywall, Simplewall, Glasswire) and many users do not notice about it. Do you really need it?

Not must have feature for me, I was just curious
Rules per App sounds useful

More important for me would be the compatibility with Windows 11 Core Isolation, is that possible in the near future?

 

[tnodir]

More important for me would be the compatibility with Windows 11 Core Isolation, is that possible in the near future?

It's a high priority for me. So I bought new EV cert, but stuck for now in the MS Partner center when creating account for driver signing.

BTW, if anyone recently created an MS Partner acc and successfully signed a driver, then please help me to proceed the registration!

 

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.13.6

• UI: Options: Add "Filter Local Network" flag.
• UI: Options: Add "Exclude from screen capture" flag.
• UI: Options: Add "Interface" tab.
• UI: Update SQLite to 3.46.1

 

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.13.7

• UI: Options: Tray: Add "Show Alert Icon" flag.
• UI: Programs: Add "Clear Alerts" button.
• Driver: Fix "Block Internet traffic" with "Filter Local Network" turned on.

 

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.13.8

• UI: Options: Traffic Graph: Add "Units" option.
• UI: Format traffic dates and bytes per locale.
• UI: Options: Fix "Theme" selected value.
• UI: About: Show last success check time.
• Driver: fortbuf: Improve IRP cancelling.
• Installer: Don't re-create "README.portable" for Portable.
• FortFirewall.exe.ini: Add "updateDir" option.

 

[tnodir]

Fort Firewall 3.13.9

• Driver: fortcout: Fix app's zones checking (v3.13.6 regression).