What is a good firewall for windows that can block packets based on tcp flags?

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Published on 2010-05-21T15:22:57Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 1:21 UTC
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I need to find a good firewall for windows that i can use to block packets based on their tcp flags. In this case for example, i need to block incoming FIN packets.

Does anyone have a firewall to suggest?

Thanks.

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