How Secure is Windows Firewall?

Garret writes "Though Microsoft is doing their part in protecting Windows users from internet attacks by including a firewall in their latest service pack, one has to wonder just how secure is the Windows Firewall from XP Service Pack 2? Not too good according to Flexbeta. Their recommendation is to turn off Windows Firewall and get an alternative such as ZoneAlarm or Sygate PF. Simply the fact that Windows Firewall can be turned off by another application is enough to tell me Microsoft has goofed again." PCWorld also has a story about the new firewall capability.

Comments

It's insulting.

[Breakerofthings]

It is laughable that M$ is arrogant enough to market a security product, when they can't provide more than rudimentary security for their OS products.
Are their actually people out there that would buy a security product from M$?? (I guess so ... but it is like hiring a crack-whore to tutor your kids in math.

It is insulting, though, that M$ wants windoze users to buy yet another product, to reach a level of security that should come with their OS products out of the fucking box. Frankly, I think that it would go a long way towards their public image (at least with the tech/semi-tech crowd) if they included that firewall functionality in their base products.

Offering a security product like this, when their OS security is so infamously lax, is tantamount to saying "We did a half-assed job on our OS, 'cause we knew we could get you to drop more dime after the fact. Yup. That's right. We know how, we just didn't fucking bother. Ha Ha.".

Secure?

[Chas]

Windows Firewall?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You so funny!