Settings : Windows 7 Firewall Control : Sphinx Software

Settings

(Plus version only)

The settings tab allows to

Adjust multiple security rules at once
Reflect changes and adjust multiple network parameter changes at once
Set the security zone to be used as default when an application network activity is detected
Enable/Disable notification dialog to set the initial security zone for an application, which network activity is initially detected
Enable/Disable blocked network attempts logging

LANs

If you connect the computer to a different internet provider, add/remove a network adapter or a network interface is switched on/off, the connection parameters of your computer are changed. So you have new LAN environment, you should have a way to change all the rules related to LAN in all existing zones at once.

Pressing the button Windows 7 Firewall Control collects all active network interfaces parameters into single list and allows editing them. Each the network interface found is appended with the LAN prefix. As the result all the network interfaces are represented as a list of separate access rules. After the editing of the list is finished all rules with the same prefix from all the zones are replaced with the new rule set. So, you can keep the same security for the applications in a new LAN

Rules

The button allows collecting of all the rules from all the zones (and the applications) and editing them in the single list. It gives a possibility to change one or many rules with the corresponding names in all the zones and all the applications at once. For example, you have a special rule for disk sharing. The rule participates in multiple zones enabling/disabling some details for each person using your shared information. If a person changes his connection parameters you need to reflect changes in all the zones. Using the feature you can change a rule and distribute the changes to all the zones, where the rule participates in.

Log File

The Log File option allows saving the blocking notifications into a chosen file in the text format. The LogSize option provides with so-called log rotating i.e. keeping the log size not above a specified size with the latest log entries only. In order to set a new log size the log file name has to be re-assigned (even to the same name). The file will be re-opened and set with the new size limit.