Windows – Lightweight solution to block outbound connections from a specific app

windows xp

Since I've realized windows xp's firewall can't block outbound traffic, I need a lightweight solution to block a specific app.
Something along the lines of "little snitch" on OSX would be a great, but I can't find an alternative.
I really wanna avoid running a bloated firewall ala zone alarm for doing just this, so maybe there are lighter weight solutions around…

Know of a lightweight and fast application for this ?

Best Answer

That would be as lightweight as it gets (memory footprint of both programs: around 5MB):

Nirsoft's CurrPorts is network monitoring software that displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.

In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file.

CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications (Applications without version information and icons)

CurrPorts is freeware and portable (no installation required).

If you're looking for a 'real' firewall application for XP, have a look at iSafer (a portable version is available here).

iSafer is free open source freeware.

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