I didn’t encounter a single program that bypassed the block applied by windows firewall control - after setup they usually don’t have the admin rights anymore to control it
It’s pretty common for programs to add firewall rules for themselves during setup. If you rely on manually blocking them after the fact they could have called back home already
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I didn’t encounter a single program that bypassed the block applied by windows firewall control - after setup they usually don’t have the admin rights anymore to control it
It’s pretty common for programs to add firewall rules for themselves during setup. If you rely on manually blocking them after the fact they could have called back home already
From my experience it seems like that with binisoft firewall control existing rules are ignored until re-added by the user
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