The right place to go to configure outbound blocking
Although the standard configuration interface for Vista's firewall offers no obvious clues as to where to go in order to configure outbound blocking, it actually appears in a different part of Windows Vista (we're still not sure why we didn't intuitively know that the configuration dialogs for the outbound firewall wouldn't be under the standard entry point for the firewall). Anyway to get to the more granular controls for the firewall, you first go to Vista's Control Panel and then you click on "System and Management"....
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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- yiou CANNOT Block Outbound anything w/ AFW
- CRASH, you are mistaken & appeantly didn't TEST your configuration after creating it.
Try & block IM or anything outbound and you will find that AFW Allows ALL outbound traffic regardlwess of AFW Rules!... (Read the rest) - Posted by: JorgeDW Posted on: 03/31/09 You are currently: a Guest | Log in | Terms of Use
Users would gripe...
Marty R. Milette | 02/06/07
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I guess the thing to do is
M.Fridholm | 02/10/07
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Which users?
Absolutely | 07/10/07
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So, essentially, "Deny All Except" is impossible?
TripleII | 02/06/07
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THIS IS REALLY A COMPUTER!
BALTHOR | 02/06/07
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Hmmmm... Buy Vista because...?
davidt@... | 02/06/07
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Hmmmm lets see . . .
wgraue | 02/06/07
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Keystone cops anyone?
edinnc@... | 02/06/07
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Sanskrit and bad similes
takas20 | 02/07/07
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Relax...
tubr0 | 02/07/07
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But you CAN block all outgoing....
Crash2975 | 02/07/07
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yiou CANNOT Block Outbound anything w/ AFW
JorgeDW | 03/31/09
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Other Firewalls.
jeroldo@... | 02/08/07
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Thanks Crash2975
reefgroup@... | 02/08/07
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Web Page Errors winvista
vistahater63 | 02/10/07
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