Windows Firewall Control

[alexandrud]

What's new in version 2.9.5

√ Added support for editing of local ports, remote ports and protocol for existing rules created with Windows Firewall Control. Be careful when you change your ports, because wrong settings can block your programs to make outgoing connections.
√ Fixed Export Policy, that could generate an unhandled exception when a standard user has no write access to temp folder.
√ Fixed for Learning Mode not showing notifications on blocked connections when Windows is in a different language than english. Currently working languages are: english, dutch, german, french, finnish, spanish and swedish.

Any feedback is welcome.

Thank you for your support,
BiniSoft.org Team

[alexandrud]

UPDATED TO VERSION 2.9.7

What's new in version 2.9.7
√ Fixed the path recognition errors on some systems where users are not allowed to read Security Events due to limited privileges.
√ Fixed the path recognition for executable files that have no file description.
√ Added support for Learning Mode for Windows that is in traditional chinese.

A new good news is that I have already started to develop Windows Firewall Control as a Windows service and a separately GUI interface. This will fix all problems related to standard accounts that have limited privileges. Until now, is just in alpha stage, but I will make it finally.

Link: http://binisoft.org/wfc.php

[alexandrud]

Updated to version 2.9.9.3

What's new in version 2.9.9.3

√ Fixed "Index is out of bounds" error.
√ Added support for Learning Mode for Windows versions that are in russian. Currently, Learning Mode works for the following languages and localizations: english (en-US, en-GB, en-CA), danish (da-DK), dutch (nl-NL), french (fr-FR, fr-CA), finnish (fi-FI), german (de-DE, de-AT, de-CH), italian (it-IT), polish (pl-PL), russian (ru-RU), spanish (es-ES, ca-ES), swedish (sv-SE), traditional chinese (zh-TW, zh-HK).
√ Fixed incorrect position display of some buttons in some forms when using 120dpi instead of 96dpi.
√ Changed the font used for the interface from MS Sans Serif 7pt to Segoe UI 8pt, to improve the readibility.
√ The rules window is from this version, resizable.
√ Fixed duplicate notification when a rule to block a program already exists. Previous versions took care only of duplicate notifications for rules created to allow programs.
√ Added support for generating log files in helping to debug problems. To generate a log file, please start the program with the parameter "-debug" and follow the instructions. ( wfc.exe -debug )

[alexandrud]

What's new in version 3.0.0.0

√ Improved: the activation process was changed to make the activation easier.
√ Improved: the procedure used to force reset the a lost password, used to lock the program configuration.
√ Fixed: incomplete path recognition, when the installation was executed from a standard user account.
√ Fixed: duplicate system tray icon after restarting the program.
√ Updated: End User License Agreement.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to the new activation process, if you use an old version and you updated to the new version, you must activate the program again using a new activation code. If you are a registered user, please log in to your account on our website and get a new activation code. Thank you for your understanding.

You can visit us at: http://binisoft.org

[alexandrud]

UPDATED TO VERSION 3.0.0.5

√ New: search box in the window with rules to easily find a firewall rule. The searching is made by program path and program name.
√ Fixed: wrong program name detected when using Shell Integration to create rules.
√ Fixed: "Learning Mode" and "Start with Windows" not working on Windows in portuguese (pt-PT).

[alexandrud]

Version 3.1.0.1 available

What's new in this version:
- Added support to create multiple firewall rules for the same program using WFC.
- Added support to show multiple notifications for the same program, until the user select in the notification window: "Don't ask me again for this program".
- Added support to read all inbound and outbound rules from WFwAS, and show them in WFC.
- Added new columns in Manage Rules for: Profile, Enabled, Action, Service Name.
- Added new menu items in Manage Rules: Import Policy, Export Policy, Full Screen.
- Added new shortcuts in Manage Rules: Command Prompt, Network Tools, Keyboard Shortcuts.
- Added Manage Rules in taskbar when the window is active and madei it act like a normal window instead of beeing always on top.
- Added support to specify multiple port range as remote address.
- Added support to modify profiles for the firewall rules. Double click a rule in Manage Rules.
- Added support to do the search of a rule by pressing Enter key.
- Added several keyboard shortcuts in Manage Rules. Press on "Keyboard Shortcuts" in Manage Rules to see them.
- By clicking on the remote address in the notification window, a WHOIS query for this IP address will begin in the default browser by using networktools.nl
- By clicking on the program icon from the notification window, file properties dialog for this program will show up.
- "Active Network Connections" was removed due to the slow performance. Instead of this, in that window you will find listed the programs for that you selected not to show more notifications.
- Updated the optional firewall rules that are made at installation to create several rules for svchost.exe to block: Akamai Technologies, Microsoft Limited, VeriSign.
- Updated the optional firewall rules that are made at installation to create rules to allow only: WFC Updater, ICMP, Window Update.
- Shell Integration is now available for all users.
- Added: The colums in Manage Rules can be sorted ascendent and descendent when a user clicks on a column header.
- Updated: Menu items in Manage Rules have now a different color on mouse hover to improve their recognition.
- Fixed: The two combo boxes are disabled after changing the current tab in Manage Rules.

Download link for the normal version:
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Installation notes:
This version can update any previous version. You don't have to close the current version that is running. The updater will do this for you and will copy itself into the old version location and it will relaunch itself from there.

Any feedback and suggestions are welcomed. I will try to add new suggested features if they can be implemented.

Thank you for your support,
Alexandru