Why is there still no EASY way to get a popup asking if an application is allowed to make OUTGOING connections? This is a standard "feature" since years in other 3rd party firewalls like Zone Alarm. For Vista and for Windows 7 I still have to use this "Windows 7 Firewall Control" Tool... http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/ ...which basically does nothing more than offering such a popup and creating the rules in the Windows 7 Firewall. But I don't want to use a 3rd Party tool for this, it can't be that hard to implement a dialog similar to the one used for incoming connections. It could be turned-off per default if Microsoft thinks it would annoy the 0815 user. But all others should be allowed to enable this. I want to be informed if a program wants to call its home server or whatever... Maybe Microsoft can offer this "feature" in the next time via a patch or SP1? Thanks

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I already suggested this for Vista and Vista SP1 but nothing happened so I'm tired of writing emails to "product developers" who do not even reply. I don't understand the product owner in this case. There IS already a similar functionality for incoming connections (with popup and so on). It would be SO easy to offer the same thing for outgoing connections. So by doing a little bit more they would GREATLY improve the firewall usage. I guess they just want to force Windows Live OneCare, IMHO that's the only reason why they stand pat.

I just asked the same thing in another thread. It's a baffling omission considering they have the capability already for incoming connections. By not having this, they have to allow all outgoing connections by default. Otherwise no net clients would work and they'd have a lot of irate users So much for the vaunted enhanced security of win7!

agreed, I remember making this suggestion twice for vista thinking they would eventually add it but here we are, a new Windows version and still no luck.