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by mellamoyo 3440 days ago
Any similar software recommendations for Windows?
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Nope, it's quite different from Little Snitch.

They're nice-looking, but don't have anything that even remotely resembles rules. All it can do is deny or allow all traffic, on per-application basis. If you want your email client to talk to only your email server but not anywhere else (as a security precaution) you'll have to use built-in Windows firewall facilities to set up such a rule.

Rule management is coming in v2.0 - or so they say - but it's not yet here.

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Outpost Firewall used to be a powerful interactive firewall for Windows, but it's dead those days.

Glasswire is fantastic but the most useful features cost $50, FYI
Is this similar? I installed it long ago and when looking at it, it didn't seem useful, but perhaps I am completely wrong?
Not really anything that equals it, which is a surprise and a shame. The closest thing I've found is Net Limiter 4.

https://www.netlimiter.com/

Comodo is super bloated but if you can make it through installation without installing Bonzi Buddy three times it has a nice feature set, for free
unfortunately nothing comparable to little snitch that I could find.

In windows I use the built in windows firewall with WFC[1] to configure it but as much as it gives you a notification when an app tries to connect to somewhere, due to how it works it unfortunately blocks the request first and gives you the notification later, so you always have to retry/restart the offending app unlike little snitch where the app remains waiting while you decide if you want to let it connect or not.

This said I would not use windows without it, these days most applications seem to want to phone home all the time for some reason.

1- http://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php

15 years ago, this was exactly what ZoneAlarm did, unfortunately it seems that it ended up as just another "all-in-one windows security solution"
Not nearly as good, but at least it uses the built in Windows Firewall. https://tinywall.pados.hu/
The issue with Tinywall is it won't alert you when it's blocking apps.

Since a lot of Windows apps are a conglomeration of EXEs just whitelisting the main app is often not enough.

Comodo is WAY more bloated than Tinywall but I use it because I can set it to alert me to everything that tries to access the internet, and choose to block it or not.

I used to use kaspersky for stuff like this a while back. Not sure how that software has changed over time.
ZoneAlarm Firewall ?