I currently use TinyWall Firewall, it works very well, it’s small/portable, no complaints I even donated to the Dev but I would really prefer open source, also it needs to be user friendly like TinyWall so my non-tech family members can/will use it like they do with TinyWall.
What’s wrong with the built in windows firewall? It works well, has a GUI to add rules, etc… You don’t even need to touch it on a default setup for most people.
This. There really is no point in installing something like tinywall, when there is a built in firewall that has more functionality (granted its much less user friendly).
Because it’s awful to use, counter-intuitive, and fucking breaks network connectivity all the time by switching private networks to public on a whim.
Fuck that piece of shit for that reason alone. I’ve seen it fuck domain controllers doing this, when “supposedly” it can’t do this on a DC. Know what happens then? I can’t RDP to the server from it’s own local network.
This is such a problem we run a powershell script on a schedule to ensure the connections remain private.
I haven’t had that happen unless my gateway or DHCP server changes, but on a server wouldn’t adding the rules to both public and private profiles solve that too?
TinyWall doesn’t change the firewall, it’s just an alternative GUI… like setting it from PowerShell.
Could you share that script? Sounds like a nifty grassroots tech solution.