Any recommendations for firewall that blocks outgoing applications & port access

You can use Palo Alto or Fortinet which are the best firewalls in the industry and is also recommended by experts. I personally use FWaaS from Ace Public Cloud.

Experts these days seemingly don't take into account the needs of consumers. Either they swing extremely far in favour of complexity (thinking Linux users) or to the other end where those everything is in auto or lacking customizations.

Unless "experts" can recommend a firewall like Private Firewall, I'll pass.

Edited by Hmm888, 08 August 2022 - 04:37 AM.

Has anyone had any experience with this German firewall called Abelssoft EasyFirewall ? It supposed to also notify you of all outgoing connections which is something I liked with the now deprecated Privatefirewall?

On linux there is ufw/gufw which is an easier way to manage iptables.

On windows the firewall is easy to manage.

On linux there is ufw/gufw which is an easier way to manage iptables.

On windows the firewall is easy to manage.

Linux? I'm referring to Windows.

 

Easy is a relative term. Have you tried Abelssoft EasyFirewall? If not, please refrain from providing unreleated and unsolicited/irrelevant comments. Thank you.

This is a public forum I'm free to comment on any thread.

With that said no I haven't used that firewall.

The windows firewall can do all you said block applications and closed ports. But you'll need to disable universal plug and play in all your networked devices because upnp allows applications out.

I speak from experience, and do you have stock in the company that made ablesofts easy firewall?

How can you be sure that the native Firewall in windows is still not active and not overriding or allowing uneeded in or out traffic ?

This is a public forum I'm free to comment on any thread.

 

You have a distorted view of reality. You don't have the freedom to post whatever you want. You are disrupting the discussion with your irrelevant and provocative remark, especially when it is clear that I never claimed that my OS is Linux. 

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How can you be sure that the native Firewall in windows is still not active and not overriding or allowing uneeded in or out traffic ?

Why would it not? If in doubt, test it.  As for me, I've given up on a third-party firewall solution although Simplewall and Windows Firewall Control (it's Russian) are praised by many.

Again this is a public forum I can comment on any post I see that peaks my interest.

Again with that said windows firewall is about as easy as it can get because like iptables on linux it's an integrated part of windows and just works.

I used to be big on not using anything like windows defender or its firewalls but after dealing with multiple corrupted 3rd party security apps on other pcs I used to work on I have dropped any and all support for 2nd and 3rd party security applications even free and pay for use ones.

Windows firewall coupled with your router/modem firewall is a good solution for security.

I agree with you on testing the Firewall. But what you may be overlooking is the Windows Firewall does everything in and out but like you I realized it is faulty and automatically including inbound entries. Since it is linked to the O.S. just like their browser Edge it cannot be removed.

 

If the Firewall cannot be removed it could self activate (say a update arrives) so even if you find a great Windows firewall alternative it may allow in  or out unwanted traffic by having the Windows original firewall still installed . I would recommend testing if the Windows firewall can be completely removed.

Windows firewall can block outbound if you configure it,

Here is one such solution:

 

https://github.com/metablaster/WindowsFirewallRuleset

Edited by Chris Cosgrove, 09 June 2023 - 03:59 AM.
Corrected URL as per report

He is obviously dissatisfied with the operation on windows Firewall.

 

I can say from my own experience and post that windows 10 firewall will automaticalling add inbound emtries without notification to the user. My attachement shows inbound entries which are not required. If you remove all inbound entries and you do not have an outside computer connecting to your computer you will be able to perform normal internet actions. But as you can see from my Firewall example all those inbound entries have the ability to connect to your computer.

Edited by compis, 09 June 2023 - 12:34 AM.

Only if your router allows in bound connection via port forwarding rules to said services and applications.

He is obviously dissatisfied with the operation on windows Firewall.

 

I can say from my own experience and post that windows 10 firewall will automaticalling add inbound emtries without notification to the user. My attachement shows inbound entries which are not required. If you remove all inbound entries and you do not have an outside computer connecting to your computer you will be able to perform normal internet actions. But as you can see from my Firewall example all those inbound entries have the ability to connect to your computer.

 

That's why windows firewall should be managed in GPO because system won't add or modify rules created in GPO.

Windows firewall in control panel is distinct from that in GPO and you can configure firewall in GPO so that it disables the one in control panel and uses only GPO rules.

GPO is only available in professional or higher windows and not available in the home version.