On my computer running w10 home, I enabled the outbound part of the windows firewall - block all outbound traffic not specified in a rule.
I created 2 custom rules:
1. allow all for program path svchost, apply to service wupdate
2. allow all for program path svchost, apply to service bits
In this configuration windows update is blocked.
If I create rule:
3. allow all for program path svchost, apply to all services -- it still doesn't work.
3.b allow all for program path svchost, apply to all programs and services -- then it works.
I don't want svchost running around unchecked, and would prefer the rule tied to a service; what am I missing?
I created 2 custom rules:
1. allow all for program path svchost, apply to service wupdate
2. allow all for program path svchost, apply to service bits
In this configuration windows update is blocked.
If I create rule:
3. allow all for program path svchost, apply to all services -- it still doesn't work.
3.b allow all for program path svchost, apply to all programs and services -- then it works.
I don't want svchost running around unchecked, and would prefer the rule tied to a service; what am I missing?