The built-in Mac OS X firewall provides the ability to block incoming connections, but it doesn't provide a transparent way to block outgoing connections. However, you can use Terminal to set your Mac ...

To block active attacks using the Shields Up mode in Windows Firewall of Windows 11/10 you will have to manually enable the required option using any one of these two methods: Via Windows Settings Via ...

The SP2 Windows Firewall was doing great up until I decided to play the Tribes: Vengeance demo. The game connected to the internet and I played for 30 minutes. There was no mention of this internet ...

Firewalls act as gatekeepers that regulate data flow between internal and external networks based on security rules, while antivirus tools detect malicious activity in a computer or network system ...

If you want to block an application from accessing the internet on Windows 11 and Windows 10 computers, here is how you can do that. There are mainly two methods to block Internet Access to Apps on ...

I'm looking to create a rule or combination of rules in Windows Firewall on Win 7 (and possibly Win 8 and/or 10) that will allow connections for a specific program on a specific port only for specific ...

Lockdown, a new app launching today, is designed to be an open source firewall, letting users block any connection to any domain, including those that use ad tracking services and analytics platforms ...

Although macOS looks deceptively simple to end users, anyone who’s launched Activity Monitor may be shocked to discover just how many helpers, daemons, services, and other processes actually run ...

Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Lockdown Apps is a new firewall app for iOS. Like Guardian Firewall, which we covered last month, Lockdown uses iOS’ VPN framework to intercept all incoming and ...