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I always wondered what the windows equivalent was, knowing how well received the app has been for mac users.

by ct0 7y ago

qwerty456127 7y ago
There are many, some better, some worse in particular ways. It all began with Outpost firewall during the Windows 98 days, then more alternatives emerged. Kerio Personal Firewall was what I liked the best for Windows XP. Windows 7-10 have surprisingly good firewall built-in, all you need is a good GUI to control it - Windows 10 Firewall Control by Sphinx Software.
decko 7y ago
Glasswire is probably the closest equivalent for Windows
mcyukon 7y ago
Check out NetLimiter 4 https://www.netlimiter.com/products/nl4 https://www.netlimiter.com/products/nl4 Has the same blocking capabilities, however it is not just install and run like LS is. It needs a little configuring to get it to behave like LS, and (For me) it took a bit till I understood what to turn on and what rules to enable. Once I had the rules setup, it's basically the same. Once an app wants to connect you can let it connect once, until terminated, for forever, to once domain only, or any domain.
dikei 7y ago
There's loads of firewall application on Windows: ZoneAlarm, Comodo, Tinywall. Some use their own packets filtering driver, while some are just frontend for Window's built-in firewall. I used to run these for a while, but it gets annoying real fast with large amount of pop-up. So now I stop using them, and only block known bad IPs using my Pi-hole, allowing everything else.
- tbyehl 7y ago
  > only block known bad IPs using my Pi-hole I'd consider this too nit-picky in most contexts, but we're in a thread about connection-blocking software. PiHole is a DNS server. It cannot block IPs or connections. I'm with you that Little Snitch style filtering gets annoying, but DOH is going to obsolete PiHole / DNS filtering very fast. Can't filter DOH at the gateway without taking on all the other hassles of MITM and can't prevent an app from using whatever DOH server it chooses.
userbinator 7y ago
Windows has had a built-in firewall since XP, and Vista introduced outbound rules.
- ta999999171 7y ago
  Wolf, meet henhouse.
rluiten 7y ago
Windows Firewall Control https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php is a nice interactive control system for the built in windows 10 firewall control, its good. It became free some time last year 2019 afaik.
fredsanford 7y ago
peerblock if it's still getting updates
soeka 7y ago
https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
mkup 7y ago
I have a very good experience with SpyShelter Firewall. FortKnox Personal Firewall works too. Also, all frontends for builtin Windows Firewall that I've tested, have failed in "2ip Firewall Tester".

I always wondered what the windows equivalent was, knowing how well received the app has been for mac users.

by ct0 7y ago

I always wondered what the windows equivalent was, knowing how well received the app has been for mac users.

There are many, some better, some worse in particular ways. It all began with Outpost firewall during the Windows 98 days, then more alternatives emerged. Kerio Personal Firewall was what I liked the best for Windows XP. Windows 7-10 have surprisingly good firewall built-in, all you need is a good GUI to control it - Windows 10 Firewall Control by Sphinx Software.

decko 7y ago

Glasswire is probably the closest equivalent for Windows

mcyukon 7y ago

Check out NetLimiter 4 https://www.netlimiter.com/products/nl4 https://www.netlimiter.com/products/nl4 Has the same blocking capabilities, however it is not just install and run like LS is. It needs a little configuring to get it to behave like LS, and (For me) it took a bit till I understood what to turn on and what rules to enable. Once I had the rules setup, it's basically the same. Once an app wants to connect you can let it connect once, until terminated, for forever, to once domain only, or any domain.

dikei 7y ago

There's loads of firewall application on Windows: ZoneAlarm, Comodo, Tinywall. Some use their own packets filtering driver, while some are just frontend for Window's built-in firewall. I used to run these for a while, but it gets annoying real fast with large amount of pop-up. So now I stop using them, and only block known bad IPs using my Pi-hole, allowing everything else.

tbyehl 7y ago
> only block known bad IPs using my Pi-hole I'd consider this too nit-picky in most contexts, but we're in a thread about connection-blocking software. PiHole is a DNS server. It cannot block IPs or connections. I'm with you that Little Snitch style filtering gets annoying, but DOH is going to obsolete PiHole / DNS filtering very fast. Can't filter DOH at the gateway without taking on all the other hassles of MITM and can't prevent an app from using whatever DOH server it chooses.

userbinator 7y ago

Windows has had a built-in firewall since XP, and Vista introduced outbound rules.

ta999999171 7y ago
Wolf, meet henhouse.

rluiten 7y ago

Windows Firewall Control https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php is a nice interactive control system for the built in windows 10 firewall control, its good. It became free some time last year 2019 afaik.

fredsanford 7y ago

peerblock if it's still getting updates

soeka 7y ago

https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

mkup 7y ago

I have a very good experience with SpyShelter Firewall. FortKnox Personal Firewall works too. Also, all frontends for builtin Windows Firewall that I've tested, have failed in "2ip Firewall Tester".