Re: software firewall that allows inter-process traffic control?
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Re: software firewall that allows inter-process traffic control?

From: Ken Sims <ng3122@ke9nr.#nospam#.net.invalid>
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 22:54:20 CET

Hi Alex -

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:29:49 GMT, Alex Hunsley
<lard@tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk> wrote:

>I'm looking for a software firewall that allows inter-process traffic
>control. For example, to give me the opportunity to forbid a certain
>program to access an HTTP proxy running on my own computer.

Any *decent* software firewall should be able to do that as long as
the connection to the proxy is a regular IP connection so that it goes
through the regular IP stack.

I use Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 to allow/block connections to the
AdSubtract Pro HTTP proxy program that I run on my PC.

-- 
Ken
http://www.ke9nr.net/
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:18:58 2005