simple firewall for windows that doesn't do invisible stuff

Sergei Shelukhin · 2007-06-27T10:57:18+00:00

Hi. I am currently using outpost and it pisses me off, it's screwingup my VPN connection for no apparent reason (no blocking logs arepresent but nothing works over VPN unless I disable Outpost), someinvisible rules that cannot be turned off pop up, the experience isvery annoying.Is there any simple firewall for windows? I don't need ad blocking,attachment checking, DNS cache and all that, I just need a simplenetwork forewall that does what I tell it to do and doesn't do what IDON'T tell it to do and is not pain in the ass to use.Is there such a firewall?

Jun 27, 2007 22 Replies

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Gary 19 years ago

I gave the Win32 port of Qtfw a try the other day. It's useful to learn rule syntax with but since it appends the ipfw command to the beginning of each rule in the scripts it generates, I can't find much use for it. However, it might come in handy for getting a visual look at a more complex ruleset before deploying it.

Perhaps appending the ipfw command is how it's supposed to work under FreeBSD but it looks like whoever made the Windows port didn't test it out with the stable release of wipfw. Either way, it's a non-intuitive application and I wouldn't recommend it to novice users.

-Gary

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Sebastian G. 19 years ago

Hum? This is how it's supposed to work. Anyway, if you don't like it, you can remove it in a post-processing step.

At any rate, you should always create your ruleset from a script and a database, f.e.

| for $i in (iana_reserved.txt); | echo ipfw add $rulenumber deny ip from any to $i xmit>>ipfw-load.sh; | echo ipfw add $rulenumber deny ip from $i to any recv>>ipfw-load.sh; | end;

Visual look on complex rules? That reminds me of FirewallBuilder and ShoreWall.

I wouldn't recommend any kind of packet filtering to novice users.

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