Simplewall: WindowsSpyBlocker rules

[crazy-max]

Hi @henrypp

I'm the developer of WindowsSpyBlocker and i'm glad to see that you're using these rules ;)
I wanted to know if it would interest you that I integrate and directly generates the blocklist.xml in my repository?

The structure would look like this:

data/simplewall/win7/extra.xml
data/simplewall/win7/spy.xml
data/simplewall/win7/update.xml

Then instead of copy / paste the rules from my repository you just have to download directly from your app the rules. A project called HostsMan can manage multi sources from the web and update automatically. I think it might interest you and why not also handle the blocking of domain names.

Let me know if you are interesting.

Thanks

[henrypp]

hi, @crazy-max

nice idea, but why do you categorize rules by OS (win7, win81, win10), not just by spy, extra and update?

why not also handle the blocking of domain names.

i think it possible, but hosts file is better by speed (i think)!

[crazy-max]

@henrypp Because some probes are OS specific but many are common.

[crazy-max]

The simplewall data format has been added : https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/data/simplewall

[ryanbr]

Would this break users testing the Windows Insider Programme? (Testing beta/alpha pre-release windows)

[henrypp]

@ryanbr, yes it may.

[ltGuillaume]

Apparently, Blocklist rules take priority over custom rules. I wanted to allow a VirtualBox.exe instance to ignore the Blocklist rules I've selected for the host system, but still it blocks the connections.

simplewall also fails to pop up a notification for this, even though they're logged to a file. (I do not have "Exclude blocklist rules" enabled; I do not have "Disable notifications" for virtualbox.exe enabled.)

[ltGuillaume]

@henrypp New release 18hrs ago: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/releases/tag/4.13.0

[ltGuillaume]

@henrypp New release: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/releases/tag/4.16.1

[ltGuillaume]

@henrypp New release: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/releases/tag/4.17.0

[ltGuillaume]

@henrypp New release: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/releases

[ltGuillaume]

@henrypp https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/releases

[ltGuillaume]

@henrypp https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/releases/tag/4.19.1

[ltGuillaume]

@henrypp https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/releases

[henrypp]

@crazy-max,

Hello, Windows 10 1903 has a problem - it has a some new ip addresses of update servers.

https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall/issues/206#issuecomment-495123198

[crazy-max]

Hi @henrypp, thanks for your input, keep you in touch.

[ltGuillaume]

@henry https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/releases/tag/4.22.0