Firewall policy
The Firewall policy specifies how the firewall protects computers.
By default, the Sophos Client Firewall is enabled and blocks all non-essential traffic. Before you use it throughout your network, you should configure it to allow the applications you want to use. See Set up a basic firewall policy.
For a full list of the default firewall settings, see knowledgebase article 57757.
A number of features have been removed from Sophos Client Firewall 3.0 for Windows 8 and later and are available only to computers running Windows 7 or earlier. These features are:
- Interactive mode
- Hidden process detection
- Modified memory detection
- Rawsocket applications (rawsockets are treated the same as other connections)
- Non-stateful rules
- The option Concurrent connections for TCP rules
- The option Where the local port is equal to the remote port