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JITTERS_XP

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Registered: 2024-10-21

Posts: 5

blocking a specific program with firewall

Hey guys, as per the rules I did do research, I'm just horrible at networking and nothing I find is easy enough for me to understand. And I don't have the time to sit down and figure out all the intricacies. All I want to do, is for reasons, block a specific program via some type of firewall. I heard that I can do it via nftables, but nftables is completely command based so I'm not sure how I would do it. Every bit of documentation I looked up on it is very confusing to me. Chains? Tables? Rules? Dude, I just want to stop like, one program from getting internet access.

It's an exe, so it requires wine to run. Do I need to do anything special in that case? I just want to block its internet. Incoming, outcoming connections, all of it. The last thing I want to do is bork my network by poking around with something I don't understand.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,197

Re: blocking a specific program with firewall

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uncomplicated_Firewall should allow you to limit on a process basis. Wine usually launches whatever through the normal exe name so if you can find the process it operates under that should be blockable

If you need more specifics you'll need to divulge what it actually is you're trying to block.