Windows Firewall Notifier

[Littlebits]

Windows Firewall Notifier extends the default Windows embedded firewall behavior, allowing to handle outgoing connections.

This application only uses existing Windows features, enabling some of them when first launched:

* Enables the Windows embedded firewall

* Sets the firewall to block both inbound and outbound connections for which no rule exists

* Enables the default Windows firewall inbound connection notification

* Enables the Windows firewall outbound connections logging (disabled by default)

* Creates a scheduled task linked to the Windows firewall event log entries, allowing Windows Firewall

* Notifier to be launched when needed only

Once enabled (after a first launch), the application will show a notification balloon when an application attempts an outgoing connexion while not being allowed to do so. A click on the notification will display a dialog box, allowing the user to:

* temporary allow the application

* create a rule for the application, so that it will always be able to connect

* block the application once only, after what other notifications may (will) appear

* always block the application (no notification will therefore be displayed afterwards)

License: Freeware
Requires: Win7/Vista

Author disclaimer:
This application is provided "as is". Use at your own risk.
Since I do not want you to panic: the only thing that could happen is that you lose your Internet connection (for instance if "something" prevents Windows Firewall Notifier to be launched properly while all outgoing connection have been blocked as required). In that case, you will be able to restore the previous settings by launching the Windows Firewall Notifier again (it will then "uninstall"). You can also go to the control panel / administration tools / advanced firewall settings to enable back all outgoing connections.
As said: nothing that could really hurt ^_^

Homepage
Download (Direct Link ZIP installer)
Download (MajorGeeks ZIP installer)

 

[Petrovic]

Windows Firewall Notifier 1.9.0

Project Description
Windows Firewall Notifier (WFN) extends the default Windows embedded firewall behavior, allowing to visualize and handle incoming or outgoing connections.

I finally decided to give the code to the community (as many people asked me too, and since I do not have that much free time to keep working on it).
Enjoy ;-)

Please note that WFN started as a personal project, not meant to be fully distributed, but ended up with more than 65 000 copies being downloaded all around the world along 2012 / 2013 (I guess I should have sold that one ). Therefore the code is not commented as it should be (as of v1.8.0) and some parts of the application should probably be improved / rewritten from scratch.

Requirements
WFN requires Windows Vista or later (Windows 7, Windows 8).
Please do not ask for a Windows XP version, since WFN relies on features introduced with Vista, it would require too much work. Well, now that it is open source, maybe someone will port it but keep in mind there are great alternative out there.

Behavior
This application only uses existing Windows features, enabling some of them when first launched:

• Enables the Windows embedded firewall
• Sets the firewall to block both inbound and outbound connections for which no rule exists
• Enables the default Windows firewall inbound connection notification
• Enables the Windows firewall outbound connections logging (disabled by default)
• Creates a scheduled task linked to the Windows firewall event log entries, allowing Windows Firewall Notifier to be launched when needed only

Screenshot

http://wfn.codeplex.com/

 

[Striker]

Just downloaded and testing it atm. So far it is realy nice and simple