DDACS Control Panel

It’s a well-known fact that the Internet is a rather dangerous place. Malicious content can infiltrate your PC in a variety of ways, but an Antivirus solution isn’t always enough to keep you safe. For instance, you can enhance the security of your computer with specialized firewall applications like DDACS Control Panel.

The application bundles together a variety of blockers. You can individually access them from the installation directory, but they’re also found in an intuitive tab layout in the program control panel. Note that you might need to restart your computer first for the application to properly deploy all settings.

On the bright side of things, you don’t have to keep the application running once rules are configured. Things can feel a little straightforward and rough around the edges, but it’s quite intuitive to set up rules for both online and offline locations. There are four blockers to use, namely file system, general firewall, WWW blocker, and program blocker.

The general firewall refers to network traffic. Some degree of experience might be required for a proper setup. Protocols like IP, ICMP, IGMP, TCP, and UDP can be blocked, with options to set source and destination addresses, and whether or not to use a pattern.

If you simply want to block access to particular websites, you do this in the WWW blocker tab. All you have to do is provide the target URL.

The file system tab is where you can block access to nearly anything on your computer which can be accessed through a double-click operation. You can block anything which matches a particular filename, anything but it, with options to allow, block, alert, or just log. Permissions like read, write, create, delete, and execute can be selected.

Last but not least there’s the program blocker. It differs from file system because it only handles executable files. Access is completely blocked, but you can choose to do so only in particular date and time ranges.

Note that changes are applied on the spot even if the rule is not yet completely defined, so you might want to be extra careful when testing it out. On the long run you can view all attempts in the log window.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that DDACS Control Panel is a powerful security application which can help protect individuals from both offline and online possible threats. It’s incredibly easy and intuitive to configure, with action taken on the spot.