Microsoft Windows have already built-in default, free and powerful firewalls, but unfortunately, they lack a simple interface to define own simple rules and can be difficult sometimes to configure them the right way. 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. Windows Firewall Control offers four filtering modes which can be switched with just a mouse click. WFC is free to use, registered users will get the advantage of learning mode which provides notifications for outgoing blocked connections.
Changes in 6.32.1.0:
- New: Added support for wildcards in notifications exceptions, including support for editing and converting existing notifications exceptions.
- New: When creating a new rule, the source of creation and the timestamp will be added to the Description property of a rule.
- Improved: The notifications system was refactored to avoid iterations over existing firewall rules. Advanced notifications settings section was removed.
- Improved: The default WFC recommended rules for inbound on ICMPv4 and ICMPv6 protocols are now defined for LocalSubnet.
- Improved: Automatically trim empty spaces from remote/local ports and addresses.
- Fixed: After importing user settings, the application does not restart anymore.
- Fixed: Internal list of defined hot keys doubles its size on each Main Panel closing.
