In recent years, computer networking technology has been utilized by entire mankind across the globe. Snort is an open source software and one of the most successful lightweight network IDS with log analyzer. Snort is mainly compatible with Unix-like operating system such as Linux, but we need to configure it with windows operating system. Snort developers stopped developing any new software on the Windows platform, and this prevents the Windows users to use Snort efficiently. TWIDS is an application which has the ability to process enormous malicious IP addresses in the dataset, by using Snort related protective resources. In addition, it can enhance the network security on Windows operating systems by checking and dropping packets effectively. Therefore, it provides a high network security that can insure the effective using for network gateway. In this paper, Snort is configured as a firewall along with TWIDS software on windows 7 platform, to monitor, allow and/or block connections, and collect log dataset of users' activities.