Vista - Vista Firewall Issue

I had a printer driver that when installed, would try to make an outbound
connection - and fail.

So I disabled the ports and services it was using. The driver now installed
and working.

I don't want OpenOffice communicating or grabbing images or content off the
'net.

I see that I would be fighting a swarm of bees to counter the group-think
going on here, just realize that not everyone buys snake oil but still wants
to monitor or block applications from initiating their own outbound
connection. Calling home, checking for updates, or reporting on user
activity.


"Straight Talk" <b__nice@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Jesper, I'm still having the same problem, blocking all outbound traffic & creating an outbound rule to communicate through the firewall no longer works, before I abandon this line of enquiry do any of the pre-existing rules especially those belonging to the Core-Networking group have to be enabled to allow apps like Internet Explorer, Windows Mail etc to communicate succesfully through the firewall?.

In message <ADB32C77-40B0-4EB7-B480-69CF91D16FC9@xxxxxx> "Hatter"
<hatter@xxxxxx> wrote:
The problem is, host-based software can be overcome by other host-based
software. Any application that doesn't want it's activities monitored
by a specific host-based packet filter can either reconfigure it or
bypass it.