Hi,
I'm looking for an application/personal firewall for windows xp/2000 which I want to deploy on a small school lan. I want a solution where I, as the administrator, decide which applications can initiate outgoing connections and on which ports (and preferabily on which destination subnets). I do NOT want my firewall to do anything else (e.g. popup blocking, email filtering, av, etc.)
The various firewalls I tried were always asking the user: "this application is trying to connect... accept/reject". I find this annoying/intrusive and I don't want my users to make this choice.
I'm wondering what type of application firewalls large corporations use ? I'm sure there must at least one product out there that lets the administrators describe the list of allowed application in a config file that can then be copied to every computer.
Thanks in anticipation for your time & tips, Alok.