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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- 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 | Log in | Terms of Use
Users would gripe...
Marty R. Milette | 02/06/07
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I guess the thing to do is
M.Fridholm | 02/10/07
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Which users?
Absolutely | 07/10/07
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So, essentially, "Deny All Except" is impossible?
TripleII | 02/06/07
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THIS IS REALLY A COMPUTER!
BALTHOR | 02/06/07
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Hmmmm... Buy Vista because...?
davidt@... | 02/06/07
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Hmmmm lets see . . .
wgraue | 02/06/07
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Keystone cops anyone?
edinnc@... | 02/06/07
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Sanskrit and bad similes
takas20 | 02/07/07
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Relax...
tubr0 | 02/07/07
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But you CAN block all outgoing....
Crash2975 | 02/07/07
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yiou CANNOT Block Outbound anything w/ AFW
JorgeDW | 03/31/09
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Other Firewalls.
jeroldo@... | 02/08/07
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Thanks Crash2975
reefgroup@... | 02/08/07
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Web Page Errors winvista
vistahater63 | 02/10/07
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