My network at home is behind a Netgear router/NAT as is common these days. On one of the PC's I turned on the Windows firewall log and I visited a few websites and it reports to me that it blocked a ...

In a surprising turn of events, Microsoft has issued yet another statement regarding an error that impacted Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. While the company ...

Windows 11 24H2 is causing Windows Firewall to throw up false positives An event gets logged every time a user restarts their device Microsoft says the error message ...

I have a Windows 2000 machine that is flooding the firewall at work with errors. It keeps trying to reach port 80 on a number of different addresses outside our network. The odd thing is the ports on ...

How to turn on the Windows 10 Firewall and configure its settings Your email has been sent Windows 10 Firewall is a robust security system that's easy to set up and configure. Here's how to use it to ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Network firewalls are one of the mainstay security controls that organizations rely on to protect ...