Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall

Re:Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall by superkuh on Saturday January 01, 2022 @04:44PM (#29763160)

It's too bad that Black Ice firewall doesn't work on modern windows OS. It was lightyears ahead of Portmaster's design and functionality even back in the late 90s (at least until IBM bought and ruined it). It seems like it's impossible for software to be self contained these days.

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Re:Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall by formerly_proven on Sunday January 02, 2022 @08:24AM (#29768501)

Clearly BlackICE was just far too cool a product name for IBM to handle.

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Re:Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall by hffft on Saturday January 01, 2022 @07:32PM (#29764441)

right, I used to have a firewall that could whitelist apps in the 90s on Windows (can't remember the name)... iptables can't even do that as far as I know... but there is https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch that I still need to try (I no longer use Windows).

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Re:Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall by zer on Sunday January 02, 2022 @05:58AM (#29767692)

Nowadays I use TinyWall[1] on Windows. A simple firewall with a whitelist and some convenience functions.

[1] https://tinywall.pados.hu/

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Re:Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall by rzzzt on Sunday January 02, 2022 @05:08AM (#29767394)

ZoneAlarm? Was in my default set of programs to install in the XP era.

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