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Is there a similar application for Windows? I was able to google NetLimiter, has anyone used it and can share how it compares?

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Pretty much any commercial Firewall Application can do this on Windows. Just have to change "Automatic rule creation" to Manual.

Actually, even Windows Firewall can do that. But sadly, Windows itself messes around with WF too much. So I would not trust it that much.

Glasswire seems quite good, though you have to buy it in order to get the basic "ask to connect" feature. I've been planning to try it since forever. Zonelarm is nice too (or at least it was when I used it years ago).

Note that the Pro versions of GlassWire do aggressive ARP scanning on all networks to populate the "What's on your Network" tab. I think it's still only controllable via a text file.

https://forum.glasswire.com/t/temporarily-disable-arp-scanni...

Glasswire doesn't do this, it either blocks all connectivity for the process or not. There is no fine grained control over hosts or ports.

The problem I have with Glasswire and similar products is that you can make calls through other Windows APIs (I don't know if that's the correct term for this but you get the idea). Especially if you run it as administrator. That means that if they want they can hide themselves from the firewall tab (the standalone .exe I mean) and make calls that will only show in other places like System or Internet Explorer. Hard to monitor or manage that.

I hope they do something about this in the new version of Glasswire that is about to be released.

Post in their forum with a list of the APIs they're not catching. Perhaps this is a limitation of the LSA (?) they're using to monitor and control traffic?

I am using Windows 10 Firewall Control (http://sphinx-soft.com/Vista/) .

I use this on my gaming machine and it works really well.

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