Windows Vista has the firewall with advanced security. This firewall can control both inbound connections and outbound connections. You can use 'netsh advfirewall' context to add, modify, and delete rules for this new firewall feature.
Adding the new rule which allows the specific executable file to receive inbound connections, using 'Netsh advfirewall' context.
To do so, do the following command:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="New_Inbound_Rule" dir=in action=allow program=<The Path for the executable> description="This is the new rule for the executable"
This creates the new rule named "New_Inbound_Rule" which allows the specific program to receive the inbound connection.
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