NetDefender a Free Firewall

Posted by: qipro on: April 24, 2010

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NetDefender is a Free Firewall with source code, which can be downloaded along with firewall executables. Netdefender works on windows 2000 and windows XP.

Netdefender has a very easy to use interface. NetDefender Firewall is completely written in VC++ 7.1 (Visual Studio 2003) using MFC , Windows API, Filter Hook Driver (Provided with Windows 2000).

Download : NetDefender

Requirements :

1. Netdefender can only run on an OS higher than windows 2000 (i.e. Win 2000, Win Xp I hope Vista would not break anything)
2. User must has admin rights (i.e. must be member of administrator group ) on the system.
3. 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.

Features :

• User 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)
• 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

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