Seth 2 Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) Hello Eset community Im guessing you allready heard about Microsoft collecting data in Windows 10 and even in Windows 7/8/8.1 and would like to block some addresses. Its 106 addresses I want to block from in and outbound traffic. I want to have my settings in firewall organized so creating a group for all those 106 addresses would be great. What I need help with is to create a group and add the addresses I have to be within that group. How do I achieve that? Edited September 1, 2015 by Seth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 5,238 Posted September 1, 2015 Administrators Share Posted September 1, 2015 Generally if you want to block communication with concrete IP addresses, create a rule with the desired IP addresses listed on the Remote tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth 2 Posted September 1, 2015 Author Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) Generally if you want to block communication with concrete IP addresses, create a rule with the desired IP addresses listed on the Remote tab. Thanks for the reply. I know how to do that, but I only have URL addresses and the Remote tab requires IP address. Since its 106 URL addresses I wanted to have them all in one folder/group. Would be nice to have all the rules organized in the firewall. Is it even possible to create groups in firewall and send other individual created rules afterwards to desired group? If not it would be a great feature to have. Edited September 1, 2015 by Seth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 5,238 Posted September 1, 2015 Administrators Share Posted September 1, 2015 You can block http(s) communication by url in the Web access setup -> URL address management. Firewall inspects packets at lower OSI layers so only information about the IP address is known to the firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth 2 Posted September 1, 2015 Author Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) Does it do the same job as firewall would do? The URL:s are from Microsoft and used to collect data from the user. Im not trying to block those URL:s from web browsing but from blocking any data leaking to those URL:s that happens in the background. Edited September 1, 2015 by Seth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 5,238 Posted September 2, 2015 Administrators Share Posted September 2, 2015 Most likely blocking urls won't help as I doubt MS would use http protocol for transmitting this information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth 2 Posted September 2, 2015 Author Share Posted September 2, 2015 I think that is true. One another thing. Is there any way to block all traffic except what is necessary for access to the Internet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth 2 Posted September 18, 2015 Author Share Posted September 18, 2015 I think that is true. One another thing. Is there any way to block all traffic except what is necessary for access to the Internet? Anyone know how to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESET Moderators TomasP 317 Posted September 21, 2015 ESET Moderators Share Posted September 21, 2015 The term "access to the Internet" is very vague - it is not only the content of webpages you load in your browser, there is some communication on the background of your programs which transmit some data needed to run correctly, there is a communication by the operating system itself, etc. I would suggest to enable Interactive mode of the firewall and create rules gradually as the prompts pop up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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