What's the closest equivalent of Little Snitch (Mac program) on Windows? [closed]

I'm using Windows 7 and would like to have a feature like Little Snitch on the Mac that alerts you whenever a program on your computer makes an outgoing connection.

Description of Little Snitch from its website:

A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!

As soon as you’re connected to the Internet, applications can potentially send whatever information they want to wherever they want.

Sometimes they do this for good reason, on your explicit request. But often they don’t. Little Snitch allows you to intercept these unwanted connection attempts, and lets you decide how to proceed.

Little Snitch informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. You can then choose to allow or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. This reliably prevents private data from being sent out without your knowledge. Little Snitch runs inconspicuously in the background and it can also detect network related activity of viruses, trojans and other malware.

Little Snitch provides flexible configuration options, allowing you to grant specific permissions to your trusted applications or to prevent others from establishing particular Internet connections at all.

So you will only be warned in those cases that really need your attention.

Is there a program like Little Snitch for Windows?

Solution 1:

I always preferred NetLimiter over any other solution I've tried.

NetLimiter used to be only about bandwidth control and it still shines at that. But a personal firewall feature was added later on.

What primarily distinguishes it from the Windows firewall is that it will not allow any connection attempt to succeed before you decided how you want to handle it. For example:

I have all the options I need right there in that dialog.

• All connection details.
• Clicking Connection Info provides access to necessary tools to make the decision if the connection is allowed:
• You can create a permanent rule to allow or deny the process to connect.
• You can allow the process to connect for as long as it lives. If it is restarted, you'll be asked again.
• And finally I can allow or deny the connection.

The only way NetLimiter could be better suited for me was if it was free. But, sadly, it isn't. Luckily though, it seems to cost exactly the same as Litte Snitch.

Solution 2:

Would Comodo or other firewalls that do egress monitoring / filtering do the trick?