

I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and the hope that 2023 will be a year of blessing for all of us. I am very VERY grateful for all of your helpful comments. IMO, TW's developer needs to take a look at how VoodooShield, Spyshelter, and other such apps do this same type of job by using the computer to do the digging, so as to burden the user with nothing but the job of thinking and choosing. Requiring user to develop a whitelist of trusted apps by digging through the program files, one by one by one, with near-ZERO computer assist, is not my cup of tea. TW's block-all/user-whitelist concept is not something that I want to deal with. For that reason, I tried it several times over the years, seeking to get myself to finally accept its idiosyncracies and learn to love it.

I will surely take a look at System Informer - many thanks for bringing that interesting app to my - I have heard nothing but GOOD reports about TinyWall (TW). To wit, it: (a) enables special rules to block ports or limit their usage & (b) gives adequately detailed data for every connection. I shall certainly take a much closer look at FortKnox's paid version & give it a shadow trial as - Simplewall does both. I value & respect your continued confidence in FortKnox. Hopefully the FortKnox developers have done both A & B. You need something to help you combat the. Tweaking a security app to (A) make it functional under an updated operating system isn't the same as (B) upgrading that app to keep it at the leading edge for dealing with the latest types of threats and attack vectors. Having harmful malware invade your personal computer is always a security risk when connected to the internet.
