A firewall is a software or hardware base solution to filter the incoming and outgoing traffic of your computer or network. All the entering or leaving traffic from your computer pass through the firewall, which inspect the all types of traffic and either allow or deny the traffic depending upon the firewall settings. Microsoft includes the built-in firewall feature in all latest windows operating systems like windows XP, Vista and now in windows 7.
Follow the given steps to configure built-in firewall in windows 7:
To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
First click on Start button and then click on Control Panel option.
Now in Control Panel click on “System and Security” link to go next.
On next page, you can see the firewall link “Windows Firewall”, Click on this link to configure the firewall.
There are many options on the left side panel of this page regarding firewall configurations under “Allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall”, For example
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Change notification settings
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Turn Windows Firewall on or off
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Restore defaults
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Advanced settings
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