- Zone List
- (Plus version only)
The Zone List is a list of predefined zones (sets of the network access rules) to apply them for the applications from Programs List. You can add/remove/edit each zone from the list with toolbar, the right mouse click menu or the hotkey. - Zone names must be unique. So if you decided to edit a zone's name, you would actually create a new zone. If you do not need the zone with the previous name, do not forget to delete it. All the zones operations are performed on by-copy basis. So, every time you are applying a zone to an application, you are actually making the copy of the zone's rules. So, the copy of the zone (as a named set of the network access rule) can be then independently modified.
- If you have made modifications to a zone from Zones List, all the applications from Programs List, which zone names are matched with the zone you have changed, would be given with the new changed zone (the new network access rule set), giving you the ability to change zones for multiple applications at once. A zone consists of network access rule set. The rule set and other zone parameters can be edited via "Zone Editor".
- Zone Editor
The zone is a set of network access rules and options to make the decision of permission or prohibition of the network access. Each time an application accesses to internet, it has the parameters of the connection trying to perform (address and port of the remote computer, used protocol and interaction (in or out) direction). Each time an application accesses the network, the firewall compares the connection parameter with the correspondent zone rules. The firewall looks over all the rules sequentially. When a rule is matched, the firewall uses result of the rule as a final permission for the application's internet access. If no rules are matched the overall zone's result is used as the final verdict for the application's internet access.- Because of the rules flexibility and adjustability, Windows 7 Firewall Control provides you with the zones manipulations at any level of details, from big computer groups to single computers, from unlimited application types to single applications. As the result, network access administration can be performed precisely for each application on your computer.
- External/Forwarded Port
- There is a possibility to automatically configure incoming external/worldwide access to selected application via Port Forwarding by external network connection (firewall/router) box.
To enable/configure External Port you have to have a separate rule with: - TCP or UDP protocol set
- Incoming direction set
- Local Port set
- Rule result set to Enable
External Port value, in that case, means instruction to external firewall/router box to create a port forwarding from worldwide ExternalPort to this computer LocalPort. Windows7FirewallControl will turn the Port Forwarding on for the ExternalPort/chosen protocol to LocalPort of this computer every time the application, which has the corresponding zone applied, is started and switch the Port Forwarding off when the application is terminated.
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