Windows Firewall Notifier extends the default Windows embedded firewall behavior, allowing to handle outgoing connections, and displaying (almost) real-time information about the current connections. WFN requires Windows Vista or later (Windows 7, Windows 8).
Behavior - This application only uses existing Windows features, enabling some of them when first launched:
- Enables the Windows embedded firewall
- Sets the firewall to block both inbound and outbound connections for which no rule exists
- Enables the default Windows firewall inbound connection notification
- Enables the Windows firewall outbound connections logging (disabled by default)
- Creates a scheduled task linked to the Windows firewall event log entries, allowing Windows Firewall Notifier to be launched when needed only
What's new in this version:
- Changed the "single instance detection" code to something supposedly more reliable (and the code is cleaner and easier to understand that way, no more Mutex and cross-processes messages). It should help getting rid of the "omg there are thousands of notifier.exe processes trying to kill my computer" syndrome ;-)
- Added an option to minimize the console to the system tray (check the notifications options)
- The notification will now remember if you lastly displayed the detailed dialog or the simplified one. I think it's more user-friendly this way than using a dedicated option.
- Some other minor tweaks.
- Added a way to copy the information from the notification as well. Just right-click on pretty anything to get a menu (only copying is possible as of now).
Known bugs
- If you open the console with an admin account (not the one you're logged in with), the settings (animation & alike) won't be applied for your logged-in account. This will be fixed in the next release.
Download: Windows Firewall Notifier 1.9.2.9 | 168 KB (Open Source)
View: Windows Firewall Notifier Homepage | Project Page @ CodePlex
