Block a file

[Jomapil]

Good evening

A program displays the following:

" Block the main executable in your firewall software "

I have the Windows Firewall. How can I do that?

Thanks for the help. Cheers.

[redwudz]

I've never had much faith in Windows Firewall, but go to 'Control Panel>Windows Firewall' and on the left side of the page there should be a 'Advanced settings'. Click that and scroll down to 'View and create firewall rules'. You should see a listing there for Inbound and Outbound Rules. Find your program there and see if you can block it.

This info is for Windows 7, since I don't have any XP machines running at present. But it should be similar to XP.

If you want a more reliable and better performing firewall, consider the free version of Comodo or one of the other popular freeware firewalls. Comodo takes a while to set itself up, but it protects much better on incoming and outgoing packets. Outgoing blocking was always one of MS's firewall weaknesses.

[Jomapil]

Hello, redwudz.

Your receipt is not valid for my Windows XP. But I followed it and I managed block the program.

Thank you.

Cheers.