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Re: Vista Firewall Control Free 2.0

Subject: Re: Vista Firewall Control Free 2.0
From: Ron May
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:12:54 -0500
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:05:43 -0700, Kat Mandu <Kat@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One thing that 
> initially annoyed me about VFC, though, was that, after applying the 
> "disable all" setting to any given application, thereafter, whenever 
> that app tried to phone out, VFC would throw up a balloon from the right 
> side of the tray noting the fact, and this balloon could become large 
> and obtrusive in cases where the given app made repeated attempts to 
> phone out. But I discovered that I could dispense with this balloon by 
> checking the option for "Do not show log balloon."

That's what I would do as well.  With any firewall, once rules are
created for a given app, I just want the firewall to silently do its
thing until/unless changes are detected.

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