Re: I am sick of windows firewall

Duane Arnold wrote:



It was not known to me the windows firewall concentrates only on
incoming traffic, and not on outgoing traffic.

That does clear a lot of fog about the peculiar presence and
absence of program names in windows firewall.

However, it is certainly not correct that when I install a
program that means I have given a blanket permission to connect
to net. There are several programs which have made a habit of
connecting to net.

Most common excuse is to check their updates, or to download
some driver or extensions.

I don't want them to do it without my permission, at least not
without my knowledge. And all their options are quite hidden
somewhere is millions of options/ preferences/ settings, that it
will make one go mad if he tries to silent every program right
at the time of installing xp.

Then, several programs just don't have any option to make them
totally silent. Several program will not give any option to
manually check for updates. It is necessary to select the
biggest duration, like monthly in wmp.

Then, windows own programs like automatic update, connect at
their wish, or nag you ad nauseum. windows just need an excuse
to go to net. If you try to install a hardware, first option you
get is "find driver on net", even if the most likely option is
that when you have the device, you are likely to have its driver.

When I use za, then I, at least, come to know that a program is
trying to make a connection. At that time, I can stop it for
then, or for ever by refusing to za. or go to that program and
change the settings in the program itself, if possible.

Thus, windows firewall is a cripple that it does not control,
nor report outbound traffic.

Those who are using windows firewall have made a wrong choice.

1. Now, if there is some other firewall that controls/ reports
outbound traffic, please do suggest it to me. Till then, goodbye
to windows firewall. za stays.

2. Is there any method of silensing za from reporting internal
traffic on the pc. Like, it should not report when data is
getting transferred within my disk from one program to another
program which are no way related to net. It should report only
those traffics which are getting/sending data from net. Is there
any other firewall with this feature?

thanks.
--
Rawat
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