As you probably know, Windows 11 ships with its own Windows Firewall, specifically designed to protect users and prevent unauthorized access to their PC, whether via the internet or a local network, ...

Windows 11 will no longer add SMB1 Windows Defender Firewall rules when creating new SMB shares starting with today's Canary Channel Insider Preview Build 25992 build. Before this change and since ...

I have a VM running Server 2008 R2 SP1 that is a network print server - TCP/IP print queues are installed on the server, and then shared out/published in AD. Client PC's connect to the shared printers ...

Firewalls act as gatekeepers that regulate data flow between internal and external networks based on security rules, while ...

The Windows Defender Firewall can be configured to allow or block programs on a computer from accessing network or Internet resources. It also allows or blocks connections to and from other computers ...