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)