And there it is, hiding under an obvious rock to turn over (not)
There, on the bottom of the list is "Windows Firewall and Advanced Security." We're warning you though. If you are a mortal Windows user (like most), what you will see next may frighten you.
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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