Designed to harden and control the advanced firewall built into Windows, TinyWall includes a combination of features that sets it apart from both commercial and freeware firewalls.
TinyWall does not display popups that "urge users to allow". In fact, it will not notify you of any blocked action. Rather than displaying popups, TinyWall allows users to whitelist or unblock programs via various methods.
For example, you can just initiate whitelisting by a hotkey, then click on a window that you want to allow. Or, you can select an application from the list of running processes. (Of course, the traditional way of selecting an executable also works.)
Due to this approach, popups are avoided yet the firewall remains easy to operate. It will also limit the list of unblocked programs to those that the user really needs, which is optimal from a security standpoint.
TinyWall gives Windows Firewall a sane and secure configuration and presents you with a simple interface where you can easily define what has network access and what not, while preventing other programs from modifing or overwriting your firewall settings.
NOTE: After installation TinyWall blocks all communications. To use the Internet or network-enabled applications, select one of the "Whitelist by ..." options in the tray menu to unblock specific programs.
What's New in This Release:
· Proper and official Windows 8 support
· Add ability to disable global hotkeys
· Properly validate binary certificate of whitelisted applications
· Remove network zone support, it mainly caused confusion
· Don't show half-constructed Manage window while loading it
· Make list in Processes and Services windows sortable
· Allow batch Remove of application exceptions in GUI
· Fix: Add Firewall Exception window now allows rules for "System" to be saved
· Fix: If cannot add a firewall rule, log details and keep service running instead of crashing
· Fix: Crash when trying to merge rules where at least one is not fully specified
· Fix: Crash when Modifying exception that has "No restrictions" set
· Fix: Connections window for open/listening ports might miss entries
· Fix: Unable to whitelist some services due to bad parsing of ImagePath property
· Fix: Wrong installation of Portuguese localization
· Fix: Failed to get file path of privileged window due to inverted condition
· Fix: Avoid double-shutdown of ...