Blocking Incoming IP With Win 7 Firewall

This question was asked before, but the answer is not working for me and the rules of this forum say do not respond to answers, so I am asking again. I went through the following process on the Win 7 firewall advanced tab wizard as advised in earlier post here:

1. On the first page choose Custom for the type of rule.
2. Click Next till you get to Scope and put the ip address in the remote IP section.
3. After that click Next to Action and choose Block the connection.
4. Click next till you get to Name and give the rule a name.

I get to step 3 and enter the IP(s) to block, but each time I click "next", or "action" in the left navigation pane, I get the error "You must specify endpoints for this rule". Can't find any info on specifying endpoints in the wizard or searching google. Appreciate if anyone can tell me what I am missing. Thanks, Roger

1 Answer

From the comments I see the issue is already resolved some time ago but I will repeat the correct steps here again. I'm missing the selection of Inbound Rules in the steps. If you're not in the Inbound Rules when you're selecting New Rule..., or follow the steps below correctly, you might end up with the error You must specify endpoints for this rule.

So in the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security do the following:

• Choose Inbound Rules at the left pane
• Choose New Rule... at the right pane or from Actions
• step Rule type: Choose Custom and press Next
• step Program: Leave All programs selected and press Next
• step Protocol and Ports: Leave protocol at Any and press Next
• step Scope: Choose These IP addresses for Which remote IP ... (second block)
  • Press Add and type the IP to block and press OK and press Next
• step Action: Choose Block the connection and press Next
• step Profile: Leave all selected and press Next
• step Name: Give the rule a meaningful name and press Finisch

Now you can close the Windows Firewall with Advanced Securityand all inbound traffic from that IP-address will be blocked.