Windows 10: How do I whitelist addresses blocked by Windows Defender Firewall?

My Windows 10 is blocking Internet access to certain Web sites. Every time this happens, a notification about "virus & threat protection connection blocked" notification pops up. If I disable WDFW, I could get to the destinations in question.

I don't want to have to repeat the process every time, so I checked the WDFW outbound and inbound rules as well as the HOST file. The Web sites are not on their lists. From where or on what then is WDFW basing its action? From MS or 3rd-party sources? Most importantly, how do I whitelist the addresses (because I don't want to disable the FW)? I tried creating outbound rules in WDFW allowing access to the IP addresses, no go.

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Windows Firewall blocking websites

I have blocked IP addresses, e.g. 255.255.255.255, not URLs, e.g. somewebsite.co m.

As far as unblocking, look at your Windows Firewall rules. Do you see anything that is blocked? If you do, click on the Scope tab and see what is listed there.

 

Add IP address and URL to Windows Defender Firewall Exclusion.

Team.

Please let me know how to add a series of IP address and URL to Windows Defender Firewall in Windows 10 Enterprise N.

One of my application is not opening and the technical support of the application instructed me to white list the URL and IP address in Windows Defender Firewall.

eg: -

52.70.61.153

52.70.61.184

52.1.273.164

52.6.21.244

*.asxyz.com

*.sync.app.asxyz.com

Please explain by which I can Whitelist the above in Windows Defender - Win 10.

Thank you

Anil. K

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firewall rule to block addresses NOT on an IP list?


I am just starting to learn the Windows Firewall (working on both Windows 7 and 10) and I'm not impressed with the inflexibility of its rules. I would like to know if


1. Is there is a way to do what I want with Windows Firewall?
2. Is there is a third-party firewall that would do it?


What I want to do is create a rule that blocks outgoing connections, for program X, that are to a destination **NOT** in an IP list.


Windows Firewall is not very flexible in how you specify IP list rules. When you give an IP list, your rule will match that list... you can't say "trigger the rule for non-matching IP addresses." Therefore to allow outgoing connections to a list, you have to


1. Change the entire firewall policy to block outgoing connections by default so that you can create an "allow rule" matching your list. This will mess up the rest of your programs.


2. Somehow combine a block rule and allow rule. Create a block rule for most traffic, with the "allow" rule overriding it when appropriate. However, this doesn't appear to be possible in general. It **may** be possible for connections that use IPSec, I'm not sure. And I'm not sure if I can use IPSec in my application.

And is there a third-party firewall that can do it? Most 3rd-party firewalls are LESS sophisticated than Windows Firewall, because the use case they are addressing is providing an interface that doesn't require much comprehension. I need one that's actually MORE sophisticated than Windows Firewall.