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Windows 10 - Firewall - Outbound rule to allow access for one service hosted by svchost.exe
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Today, I'm stuck with a Windows Firewall problem and I hope you can help me.
I'm trying to create rules dedicated to services but I can't make them match.
I found some related topics ...
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What determines which services svchost.exe hosts?
When viewing processes under Process Explorer, there is services.exe, which has several svchost.exe subprocesses. Each of these hosts one or more services. However, selection of services in single ...
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Isolate hosted service (svchost.exe) in its own process
As many superusers are probably aware by now, svchost.exe is used by Microsoft to host multiple Windows services in a single process, with one process per service group.
In Windows 7 (and later?), ...
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What command line options are available to svchost.exe?
It seems the only command line option used by Windows for svchost.exe is -k, followed by the group name which svchost needs to start for a given service. Yet, use of a command line option indicates ...
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Is there a way to determine which service (in svchost.exe) does an outgoing connection?
I'm redoing my firewall configuration with more restrictive policies and I would like to determine the provenance (and/or destination) of some outgoing connections.
I have an issue because they come ...
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