find that all these software reply on windows firewall, which is disabled when you use antivirus/firewall product such as sophos endpoint protection or symantec endpoint protection.
Creating rules manually never worked for me, this app has saved my sanity, thank you. It is great, you do not have to run it nonstop and you can easily change modes to allow everything.
This can be done with a batch script. No need for 3rd party applications. I've my own batch script for blocking outgoing connection for certain .exe's but i don't want to post it here as i don't code and mine is a mish-mash of bits i researched and threw together. I'm sure if you go to the scripting threads some of the guys there would help anyone interested in learning, how to create a clean version. Hope this help
For these very reasons, lol, precisely for these reasons, some ppl need a third party application. Then I ask you what's wrong with them?