Windows Vista's Firewall offers false sense of security

..(continued from previous image) while the subsequent Frequently Asked Questions and a healthy list of questions and answers, the one question we just clicked on didn't appear on the list. *sigh*. Not only that, there were absolutely no references to outbound blocking. (double *sigh*). But we did see one question, the answer to which were hoping would solve the first mystery: "What does allowing a program through a firewall mean?" Recall that we saw that in one of the first configuration dialogs and we weren't sure if it meant inbound blocking, outbound blocking, or both.

For David Berlind's write-up on Vista's inadequate personal firewall, see his blog post in ZDNet's TestBed blog.