fort/README.md

# Fort Firewall

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Fort is a simple firewall for Windows 7+.

## Features

  - Filter by network addresses, application groups
  - Filter by `SvcHost.exe` service names
  - Support wildcards in program path names
  - Application group speed limits
  - Blocklists via "Zones"
  - Stores traffic statistics
  - Graphical display of bandwidth
  - Has own kernel driver, based on Windows Filtering Platform (WFP)

## Supported OS versions

 Asset                  | OS      | Version           | Architectures | Description
------------------------|---------|-------------------|---------------|---------------------------------------
 \*-windows-x86.\*      | Windows | 7 SP1 and later   | x86, x64      | 32/64-bit Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11
 \*-windows-x86.\*      | Windows | 10 and later      | ARM64         | ARM64 Windows 10, 11
 \*-windows10-x86_64.\* | Windows | 10 2004 and later | x64           | 64-bit Windows 10 2004-22H2, 11

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## Requirements

  - Disabled [HVCI (Core Isolation)](https://github.com/tnodir/fort/discussions/40)
  - [Visual C++ x86 (32-bit!) redistributable](https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe)

## Wiki

  - [Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)](https://github.com/tnodir/fort/wiki/FAQ)
  - [Building](https://github.com/tnodir/fort/wiki/Building)

## SAST Tools

[PVS-Studio](https://pvs-studio.com/en/pvs-studio/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=open_source) - static analyzer for C, C++, C#, and Java code.

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Nodir Temirkhodjaev, <nodir.temir@gmail.com>