&#62; I honestly don't want to have to whitelist every single one program I run to be able to do access the network. Do you?<p>Yes.  How many programs do you have accessing the internet?  I don't think that I've used, total, more than 10 or 11 programs that need internet access (and it's probably more like 3 or 4 for any given year or so); and I can live with that kind of one-time bother in exchange for knowing that other processes aren't chatting about me without my knowledge.