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Old 05-06-2006   #7 (permalink)
Paul Johnson


 
 

Re: Microsoft limits Vista Firewall - for their own good ?

"John Jay Smith" <-> wrote:

>http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/04/m...ewall-for.html
> Unfortunately, Microsoft will turn off the ability to block outgoing
> traffic by default and set the new firewall to block incoming traffic
> only. Microsoft is doing this at the request of corporate customers and
> government departments who would like to manage this feature from an
> administrator level.


No, that's not really unfortunate at all. That's a no-brainer. Prohibit
all inbound traffic, allow all outbound. This is only really a problem if
you don't trust the network or system you're on (in which maybe it's time
to take a serious look at your implementation if you don't trust it).

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