Windows Firewall Control is a nifty little application which extends the functionality of the Windows Firewall and provides quick access to the most frequent options of Windows Firewall. It runs in the system tray and allows user to control the native firewall easily without having to waste time by navigating to the specific part of the firewall. This is the best tool to manage the native firewall from Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Windows Firewall Control offers four filtering modes which can be switched with just a mouse click:
High Filtering - All outgoing connections are blocked. This setting blocks all attempts to connect to and from your computer.
Medium Filtering - Outgoing connections that do not match a rule are blocked. Only programs you allow can initiate outgoing connections.
Low Filtering - Outgoing connections that do not match a rule are allowed. You can block the programs you do not want to initiate outgoing connections.
No Filtering - Windows Firewall is turned off. Avoid using this setting unless you have another firewall running on your computer.
Program Features:
- Intuitive and easy accessible interface in the system tray, next to the system clock.
- Full support with standard user accounts. Elevated privileges are required only at installation.
- Create temporary rules which are automatically deleted when they expire or on program restart.
- Disable the ability of other programs to add Windows Firewall rules.
- Multiple and easier ways of creating new rules in Windows Firewall.
- Integrated support of creating, modifying and deleting Window Firewall rules.
- Lock feature which can disable the access to the settings of the program and Windows Firewall.
- Shell integration into the right click context menu of the executable files.
- Search for invalid rules with the possibility to delete them.
- Search for executable files through folders and create new rules in seconds.
- View recently blocked connections and create new rules from the logs: inbound and outbound.
- Choose if you want the program to start at user log on.
- Import, export and restore the firewall rules.
- Protection to unauthorized uninstallation.
- Possibility to restore previous settings at uninstallation.
- And many, many more. Just try it out.
Registered Users Features:
- Learning Mode which provides notifications for blocked outgoing connections.
- Lock the current state of the program and Windows Firewall with password.
- Reset a forgotten password used to lock the current state of the program.
What"s new in version 4.4.4.0:
- New: A new section for configuring the advanced notifications settings was added in the Notifications tab. The new settings can be used to tweak the notifications system regarding the notifications that should be displayed or not.
- Updated: The notifications levels were changed back. In Medium notification level the notifications will be displayed no matter of the folder, and the notifications for System and svchost.exe will be skipped. The notifications for System and svchost.exe are displayed only on High notification level.
- Updated: The inbound rules with edge traversal set to "Defer to user" are not set as read only anymore in WFC. Even if the update on them may not work in all cases, the user has at least the ability to change the Group of the rule so that the rule becomes editable in WFwAS.
- Fixed: Duplicating a rule with the port set to keywords as IPHTTPS or Ply2Disc does not have the Duplicate word in the rule name. Also, these kind of rules can"t be edited because IPHTTPS or Ply2Disc keywords are not recognized by WFC.
- Fixed: In Windows 10, rules with local ports that use keywords are retrieved with an extra "," making the rules invalid when trying to edit them.
Download: Windows Firewall Control 4.4.4.0 | 350 KB (Free, paid upgrade available)
View: Windows Firewall Control Website