Network Filtering by Operating System
Filtering your connections based on operating system can go partway to helping keep such situations from running away. While I will focus on filtering traffic from Windows systems, this process can equally apply to BSD, Linux, Mac OS, or a host of other operating systems listed in the pf.os file on your system. This may be especially useful to people running older versions of OSes that have not or cannot be patched but still require some network connectivity.