Simplewall-Firewall

If you add the following User rule to Simplewall it will block ICMPv4 ping requests coming from any remote source address to your machine:


I've enabled the rule only for the System process , but you can apply the rule to all apps/processes if you want to, by selecting Enable rule (for all).

HTH

 

Sorry to hear it's not working.

Prior to posting, I tested the rule between a Windows 10 PC and a Windows 8.1 PC, both on the same network.

You need to make sure the Remote IP address in the rule is exactly "0.0.0.0/0" (the final "/0" is vitally important). If it still doesn't work, then you can replace "0.0.0.0/0" with just "0". I'm not sure but I believe 0 means any port to Simplewall.

The local rule number represents port 8, which is an ICMP Echo Request. Technically, ICMP use types and not ports, but for firewall purposes, ports appears to work for ICMP rules in Simplewall.

 

I'm trying out Simplewall 2.3.2 on Windows 10 x64 Educational version 1703 in Virtualbox. When I click on load on system startup in Simplewall settings, Simplewall feezes, and stops responding for around 20 seconds.

 

I thought Simplewall was a shell for Windows Firewall, but Windows reports that Windows Firewall is disabled, and Simplewall is doing the filtering. Does Simplewall have it's own packet Filter driver?

 

Well, the first post of this thread says Simplewall uses WFP so I guess Simplewall is just not integrating right with Windows Security Center on my version of Windows.

 

Here u have the answer:

 

simplewall v2.3.3 (8 July 2018)
https://www.henrypp.org/product/simplewall
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Thanks Mood....I get the update alerts here first rather than the internal updater !

NB: 2.3.3 automatically adds back several 'system' rules by default, so be sure to go in there and check if there`s any you don`t want active.

 

and several service blocked by default in blocked apps
thanks for update

 

I see those blocked services but don`t understand the reasoning behind having them hardcoded (they cannot be deleted)

I don`t even have some of those services installed - so essentally GUI littering.

I should be able to delete them IMO

 

i don't mind they will be there as long as blocked
in system rules thera are DHCP and DNS(ticked) but also i see them in new service blocked apps rules
not sure whats different

 

I think they are "blocked" so to lock them down - they (specifically) are both functions of svchost and you don`t really want to give that free rein to do what it likes...

the rules allow only the bare minimum needed [ports in & out] to ensure functionality is kept. (I think that`s what`s going on there)

 

Apparently it does not use a driver, but it does work differently when compared to TinyWall and WFC. Do you like this app so far? I'm thinking about trying it, because I found out that WFC rules can be wiped out, and this shouldn't be the case with SimpleWall.

 

I was having some problems with it, but I don't remember exactly what they were now. I was testing it in a VM. I do remember that it annoyed me because I received a UAC prompt at boot time asking if I wanted to allow Simple Wall to run.I received it each time I booted.

When I first installed it I thought it was working right away, but when I rebooted the tray icon changed indicating that it was active now. I didn't realize it was not active when I first installed it because it did not say I needed to reboot.

At the present time it's not for me, but it may be in the near future. For now I will continue using Eset's Firewall, and hope they care enough about their firewall to make some long overdue needed changes to it. I've been hoping for about 4 years now so I want hold my breath.

 

I am using it for a month now. It is actually pretty good.
Though, on my end it has an issues where it spams the blocked-packets log and the adapter with a port-scan like behavior. It wants to connect outside using IPv6 (I think) but that is disabled. It uses DNS querys over UDP. This mostly happens when I am connected to a VPN.
I asked the developer, but I did not get a sufficient answer yet. He said to configure OpenVPN with "block-outside-dns" in the .ovpn files, but that did not help the issue.
Right now you can stop this behavior if you deny the rule for simplewall.exe in itself.

HOWEVER: I see that chrome.exe is also doing this. So it might not be an issue with Simplewall at all. (PC is clean, no malware)

 

You can disable the UAC prompt when you check "Skip User Account Control warning" in simplewalls settings. Then it will start using task scheduler which does not need to prompt you.
You don't need to reboot to activate it, usually. Just click "Enable Filtering" and let it disable windows firewall.

 

OK thanks for the feedback, not sure if I will try it.

This sounds a bit weird, I think I had the same issue with Comodo, that was reason enough for me to dump it.

 

Anyone else having trouble with this firewall and Microsoft Word? To be more specific, I get an error message loading Word when trying to open a document unless I toggle the firewall. After that, it's fine until I reboot. Word is not blocked in the firewall.

 

This tool is awesome, and its open source, why is this not more popular?

 

So it won't go same fate as WFC. Acquired by a $$$ Huge Company $$$.

 

Well its GPL code, acquiring it wont take it away from the public anyone will be able to continue the project

 

@henrypp What's going on with development? Have you stopped?