I never used WFC before and I haven't installed it yet. I've already made recent changes to the default settings to block all outbound traffic. At least, I'd feel better knowing if I ran into a problem with Windows Defender Firewall. It would build greater assurance if one knew who to turn to for support. Other than the measure to uninstall previous versions, there are very few posts that I could find on Malwarebytes forum about problems encountered. I am sure I could figure it out if I tried, but it seems its not compiled? I am sure there is a installer somewhere, but.After the acquisition last year and the fact that one can't download Windows Firewall Control directly from Malwarebytes official website, does Malwarebytes offer support to a user where they might be experiencing with the latest version? A recent article on Ghacks cited their source from Malwarebytes asking users to uninstall the current version of Windows Firewall Control manually before they run the installer again. Perfect! Many many thanks!Įdit/ wanted to try Simplewall, but I can never figure out how to install GitHub stuff! lol. Best of both worlds in a footprint that is less than 1MB. Choosing "Shell integration" also gives you the "right click" menu like as well. WFC works with Windows Firewall of course, but it works very well, and pops up a allow/deny/deny now ask again later popup (which is how I found out about pingsender.exe). I just wanted a simple "Block all and ask". I am sure somewhere deep in firefox there is a way to turn it off, but 'Aint nobody got time for dat!'Īs for Comodo and Zonealarm, they are just too bloated and complicated for what I needed. When you run Firefox.exe, it then takes it upon itself to run "pingsender.exe" as well, without you knowing which sends data to Firefox servers for.whatever. On top of that, you wouldnt believe how many OTHER things run and connect to your internet when you run an app, so only blocking the app will let other things through. ) is just as much hassle as setting up a manual firewall rule.
exe and right clicking and selecting block (ie. Tinywall and dont have popups when you run an app asking if it can connect, and going to programfiles and finding the. Out of the three I tried, Tinywall and WFC and, Only WFC works the way I want.
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