I found about this a few months ago, it’s a free tool that makes the task of managing the internet access of programs a easy one. For example, you can select exactly which process can access the internet manually, of course blocking some system things on windows will disable the connection totally until reactivated.

With this I can prevent apps from updating when I don’t need it them online.

Each time you execute a new program if it tries to connect to the internet it will be blocked by simplewall and ask you if allow or not.

It is compatible with windows 7 and higher versions.

You should read how to use it and what it does before installing it.

The program is open source and it’s on GitHub: https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

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      1 year ago

      I switched from simplewall to portmaster and I actually like it more. It gives me more control over my system

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        Portmaster ui is still clunky doesn’t show blocked apps separately. No easy way to restart it’s notifier.

        No way to allow all or block all in notifications

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          doesn’t show blocked apps separately.

          Never felt the need, they’re (almost) all blocked lol

          No easy way to restart it’s notifier.

          True that, luckily I rarely ever turn it off. My VPN works perfectly with it on, my dnscrypt works with it, so no reason to turn it off basically.

          No way to allow all or block all in notifications

          I’m not sure it’s even possible due to the nature of windows notifications. I guess it’ll need to bump a new notification for each notification of “allow all for <app name>”, but the can’t control the older notification and clear it so it’ll become a mess very quickly.

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            1 year ago

            For example Block permanently, block all, allow for next 60 min ( example installer) all were there in malware bytes firewall.