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Not many cues regarding
On the subsequent Windows Firewall Setting dialog, there weren't too many visual cues for someone looking to configure the firewall for outbound blocking. The "General" tab offered us the ability to block all incoming connections which is not what we wanted. So, intuition led us to the "Exceptions" tab on top.

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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