Following these 5 topics ( 1 2 3 4 5 ), It seems there still isn’t a great option on Firewalls. To avoid confusion, please let’s stick to software firewall and Windows for this topic. First off, the problem with Windows Firewall: Windows Firewall lacks the most important usability feature which al…

Among those you’ve mentioned, I tried only Portmaster and Simplewall. Portmaster was kinda clanky, and generally felt too heavy for a daily firewall, not to mention that the UI feels messy and bloated. Also I don’t like the fact that they integrated SPN in the portmaster, making it unnecessarily he…

Personally I’ve used simplewall for years and it has all the basic features one needs. If u need smth that simplewall can’t do, chances are there is a program out there that specializes in doing that thing and does it 10x better anyway. There is simply no reason for the author to add bloat to it wh…

Well simplewall is open-source and u can always verify if anything on ur pc is spying on u by using ur router domain analytics. Henrypp is just very tired of dealing with all the dumb shit and questions he has to deal with on the repo. Every time there’s a new version 10 people post the EXACT SAME I…

Simplewall it is then! Thanks for chiming in!

I am basically a novice with github, so excuse my ignorance but, cant the gitmodules be used to reproduce the build?

[image] win11.shading291: Pinging @Average_Joe and @Andell who tried a lot of solutions for this. What are you using now? I appreciate your reply! I’m still researching but Portmaster still comes across as the best. I only came across something very new, it seems like a VPN 2.0: https://nym…

I decided to go with Simplewall afterall! The critics on that software is mostly that the author is not a so nice guy, but the software is really well made and give you back control over any process that want to access the internet. You just need to allow windows updates after you install the softw…

@win11.shading291 Another firewall you might be interested to check out is Minimal Firewall . It’s quite a recent project. It works much in the same way as simplewall in that it’s a frontend for WFP. Here’s the PG thread about it: Minimalfirewall: Minimal Firewall is a portable Windows firewall wit…

Thanks for the recommendation! :slight_smile: I had already seen it, but Blackbird’s experience with it threw me off. I’m happy with simplewall for now :slight_smile:

Software Firewall to manage Outbound connection on Windows

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anon59300808 October 8, 2025, 8:30pm 18

They must be used, or there will be errors during compilation. The problem is that the developer does not give the user enough data to reproduce the environment because he’s lazy and “don’t give a f” or something else. Even his gitmodules don’t work as they should, Git cannot clone them automatically, and this has to be done manually.

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Software Firewall to manage Outbound connection on Windows

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