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0 pointsbushbaba2y ago0 comments

Yes, but that might also be caught by infosec users of said tool who have things similar to “littlesnitch” alerting them to the outbound API call attempt.

0 pointsbushbaba2y ago0 comments

Yes, but that might also be caught by infosec users of said tool who have things similar to “littlesnitch” alerting them to the outbound API call attempt.

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genewitch2y ago· 5 in thread

there used to be windows GUIs for forcing new connections to ask, but i haven't seen anything like it. I can't recall the name of the one i used to use, but it scored perfectly on shieldsUp - oh, Zone Alarm.

Littlesnitch iirc is macos only, but it sounds lovely for this sort of thing.

flexagoon2y ago

There's a very good relatively new open-source GUI firewall app like this called Portmaster:

https://safing.io/

It's available for Windows and Linux

dhaavi2y ago

Indeed!

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hexadec2y ago

You can set this with Windows' default firewall. Setting to strict mode with no whitelist causes a UAC alert every time a process attempts communication.

callalex2y ago

The generic term is “outbound firewall”.

Hrun02y ago

You are looking for simplewall

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