I think I need a little help creating rules for svchost.exe and windows 7. It seems to want to cinnect to virtually every website I go to. Any basic guidelines in terms of "allow" rules would be appreciated.
In what way? The only sites it should be attempting connections to are you DNS server(s) on remote port 53, UDP, maybe a remote DHCP server, port 67, UDP and anything MS related on ports 80 or 443, TCP. Are you using Win 7 firewall.
Right, I forgot about time sync The more frequent connections will be from service wuauserv to remote 80 & 443, and DNS to 53.
Don't forget Web Service Discovery LLMNR Teredo Generic Protocol 41 tunnel support UPnP Some depend if you've disabled IPv6 or not. All I can think of of the top of my head, sure there are others.