The most natural starting point for firewall configuration?
Knowing that Windows Vista's firewall is capable of outbound blocking, but that it wrongfully defaults to let all programs access the Internet when it should let none, we were looking for an intuitive way to correct the problem. After going into Windows Vista's Control Panel, the link that said "Allow a program through Windows Firewall" made the most sense to us. As a side note, we were logged in with administrator privileges during this test.
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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