Checking an app for blocking after adding it to the firewall list
To turn the Lenovo Registration applet into one of the "excepted" applications, we checked it on the exceptions list. At this point, we realized that, by adding a new application and checking it, we didn't learn anything different than we did when inspecting the properties of the one that was already checked (Core Networking). So, we decided to install another application (Firefox) -- one that was easy to tell if there was any outbound blocking going on --- to see what would happen.
For David Berlind's write-up on Vista's inadequate personal firewall, see his blog post in ZDNet's TestBed blog.
For David Berlind's write-up on Vista's inadequate personal firewall, see his blog post in ZDNet's TestBed blog.
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- Which users?
- If Microsoft set the 'deny by default, allow by exception' rule, idiot users would scream bloody murder when they installed the firewall and nothing worked by default.
That task would be... (Read the rest) - Posted by: Absolutely Posted on: 07/10/07 You are currently: Logged In | Log out
 Users would gripe... Marty R. Milette | 02/06/07 |
 I guess the thing to do is M.Fridholm | 02/10/07 |
 Which users? Absolutely | 07/10/07 |
| So, essentially, "Deny All Except" is impossible? TripleII | 02/06/07 |
| THIS IS REALLY A COMPUTER! BALTHOR | 02/06/07 |
| Hmmmm... Buy Vista because...? davidt@... | 02/06/07 |
| Hmmmm lets see . . . wgraue | 02/06/07 |
| Keystone cops anyone? edinnc@... | 02/06/07 |
| Sanskrit and bad similes takas20 | 02/07/07 |
 Relax... tubr0 | 02/07/07 |
| But you CAN block all outgoing.... Crash2975 | 02/07/07 |
| Other Firewalls. jeroldo@... | 02/08/07 |
| Thanks Crash2975 reefgroup@... | 02/08/07 |
| Web Page Errors winvista vistahater63 | 02/10/07 |
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