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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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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 | | Terms of Use
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
yiou CANNOT Block Outbound anything w/ AFW  JorgeDW | 03/31/09
Other Firewalls.  jeroldo@... | 02/08/07
Thanks Crash2975  reefgroup@... | 02/08/07
Web Page Errors winvista  vistahater63 | 02/10/07

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