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Existing Outbound rules

Existing Outbound rules
Here, Windows Vista is showing us the existing outbound blocking rules. These were either put there by Microsoft (this is a brand new installation of Vista) or Lenovo (it's a new Thinkpad that came with Vista pre-installed). We decided to experiment with creating a new rule. The goal was to block Firefox from accessing a specific Web site. We didn't get very far (and we don't think other mortals will either).

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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