Net Defender, another OPen source firewall for Windows
February 10, 2009Few days ago, i come up with a project to collect some valueable firewall and other security tools for WIndows. i have come to find many valuable firewalls for windows that is open source and reliable.
One you have to try is Net Defender. NetDefender is a Free Firewall with source code, which can be downloaded along with firewall executables. Netdefender can only works on windows 2000 and above versions of windows platforms.
By using this software, we can get these features:
- You can Block all Traffic and can Allow all traffic through just one mouse click
- It is a packet filtering Firewall.
- User can add custom rules to this firewall as per their security requirements.
- User can define rule based on source and destination IP, source and destination Port number and on Protocol used (IP,TCP,ICMP).
- User can modify already added rules. (NEW in v 1.5)
- User can Remove the already added Rules. (NEW in v 1.5)
- A Port scanner is also provided to scan the system for open Ports.
- Provides the list of applications that are currently trying to connect to outside network.
- Proper help file is provided in case of any difficulty.(Yet to add)
To be able to get this software works for you, these are the requirements:
- A platform that is higher than windows 2000 (i.e. Win 2000, Win Xp I hope Vista would not break anything)
- User must has admin rights (i.e. must be member of administrator group ) on the system.
- Default Firewall of windows Xp must not be running . In windows Xp with service pack 2 Default firewall is always running. So you need to stop it before running the Netdefender.
You could download it here.
