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I often find myself accessing the Internet while travelling via either (gasp) dial-up or via a very limited data plan on a cell phone. I'd like to make sure that my laptop does not use the network connection for routine but unessential tasks [backup over VPN, uTorrent if I accidentally leave it running, etc].
Under Linux, I could easily do this using iptables. I'm looking for an easy [one click activation, or one script] way to do this under Windows XP.
Note that my machine does not run the Windows firewall [corporate policy], but a different one, and I can't modify the rules it imposes [including adding my own]. I do, however, have administrator access.
Thanks
Interesting. I'm still looking for a whitelist based solution instead of blacklist; after all, I'm not sure I know everything that needs to be blocked, and it would only take one mistake to use up a months worth of data, but this still looks promising. Thanks – Mikeage – 2009-10-11T11:30:25.070
hmm. do you have a list of programs that you'd want to shut down? i clued into your mention of backup-over-VPN when i mentioned restricting based on DNS. that wouldn't work for uTorrent and the like (at least not well). but the Netprofiles would let you run a kill-script as well, to close uTorrent and updater programs. – quack quixote – 2009-10-11T11:39:39.560
probably... but again, I'm afraid of missing one – Mikeage – 2009-10-11T16:00:37.393