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Win 10 Pro -> Start -> Search -> "firewall" -> "allow an app through Windows Firewall" -> "Change settings" -> uncheck apps and features to disallow access to i
by Cactus2018 8y ago
Win 10 Pro -> Start -> Search -> "firewall" -> "allow an app through Windows Firewall" -> "Change settings" -> uncheck apps and features to disallow access to internet.
I turn nearly everything off. ... Check again and find various apps are allowed. (especially after a Windows Update, but seeming at random as well) WTF.
This is bad security.
In the past week the following apps became re-enabled in Windows Defender Firewall: "Xbox Game bar", "Windows Maps", "Windows Calculator", "Movies & TV", "MSN Weather", "Microsoft People", "Groove Music".
- stuuuuuuuuu 8y agoWhy does Windows Calculator need network access??
- skykooler 8y agoTo get the latest rates for currency conversion: https://www.windowslatest.com/2017/07/23/calculator-windows-10-updated-currency-converter/ https://www.windowslatest.com/2017/07/23/calculator-windows-...
- cptskippy 8y agoHa, that's really cool. I rather like the Windows 10 Calculator.
- minkzilla 8y agoThe programmer mode on the windows calculator is extremely useful!
- noir_lord 8y agoThen it should ask for network access the first time and remember what you said. I didn't even know it had a currency converter. These days I just do "200 GBP in hungarian forint" and google does it for me. Though in fairness I'm a linux user who does some software dev on windows (in a VM) and that's about it.
- skykooler 8y agoFrankly, I didn't know it had one either. I took a guess at currency conversion being one calculation where the results would need to be looked up daily, googled and found the above article.
- auiya 8y agoHow else are those modified exploit PoC's supposed to call back to their C2s?
- gambler 8y agoThank god I managed to click the right button about 100 times and retain my Windows 8 installation. Mots of my friends weren't so lucky. The clicked the close window button instead of "decline" or whatever it was called and got the "free upgrade".
- chrisper 8y agoYes. This drives me crazy as well. What you have to do is use group policy to manage your firewall (secpol.msc) and tell it to ignore local firewall rules.