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Not having received a reply, I attempted to find a solution on my own. Either I would find one or I needed to find a different Firewall that allowed me to effectively control what could access the internet. I wanted to find a way to block access to something called System since: - it seemed to always be accessing the…

In that case, would you have any suggestions? To block outbound connections by default and then setting up rules is a tedious process. I have BDFirewall with Alert mode on. So I expect to receive an alert when a process or app attempts to connect to the internet. But something called <System> seemingly has unrestricted…

<System> can only be blocked by rules that have the "apply to all applications" checkmark. So I've now applied a new rule to deny access to all. As you can imagine, when doing this it is very likely to "affect" more things than you want. So, either you are very specific with what you want to block (ip, port), or you block…

>> Did you manually create the rule that blocks svchost, or was it created automatically? >> Is it set to block access on all ports, protocols, directions, etc or only some? I appreciate the reply. I created the rule for svchost. I based this on my understanding that its access to the internet is not a requirement for…

Might anyone know something about this? Something on my laptop called "System" seems to be allowed unrestricted internet access by BD Firewall. I don't know what process it is nor where it's stored. When I click on it, it has no extension, nor path. When I click on <View application rules>, I'm taken to the <Rules> page…