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Windows Vista How to block thousands of IP addresses with Windows Firewall

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Start date Oct 21, 2007
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advanced security blocklists driver signing firewall ip blocking network security peerguardian protowall traffic windows vista

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The thread discusses how to block thousands of inbound IPs on Windows Vista 64-bit using Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, with the original poster frustrated that they can’t import IP blocklists and find no practical way to create rules for large ranges. The key question is whether there’s any supported method to load/export/import bulk IP blocks (or otherwise handle blocklists) despite limitations and driver-signing issues affecting third-party tools. Overall sentiment is negative/angry, with responders implying Vista’s built-in firewall setup isn’t well-suited for importing large blocklists and that this is why the expectation of “more secure than XP” isn’t met for that use case.

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I want to set up an IP block from a bunch of blocklists for my Internet security. I can't do this, even with Windows Firewall with Advanced Security in Administrative Options. This is pissing me off. As far as I can tell, Windows Firewall requires you to put in an entry for each IP range and does not let you import any IP blocklists in any format. Forget about PeerGuardian2 or ProtoWall. Neither of these work properly in Windows Vista 64-bit due to Microsoft's stringent driver signing requirements. A $500 a year license to Microsoft certify every driver for Windows Vista 64.

So how do I block thousands of IP addresses from inbound traffic under Windows Vista using the Windows Firewall? There doesn't seem to be a way at all. Does anyone know how? I thought this was supposed to be more secure than Windows XP? PeerGuardian2 works in Windows XP.