Vista Firewall to be Crippled

UltimaGuy writes "The firewall in Windows Vista will, by default, have half its protection turned off because that is what enterprise customers have requested, according to the software giant. The firewall will be set to only block incoming traffic even though it will be capable of blocking outgoing traffic. Microsoft also claims that configuring the Vista firewall to block outgoing connections from rogue applications and malware will require a varying degree of technical knowledge, depending on each user's security requirements."

Comments

Re:Why?

[chill]

One would expect that Entreprise customers could set this anyway they want via Group Policy.

You'd be surprised at the number of companies that are still running Win2K domain servers, Novell or NT Domains for their core. I've run into several, including quite a few who still have Win98 boxes on the network as single-purpose terminals.

Workstations migrate in to an environment much quicker than servers do, so the companies see WinXP much faster than they can upgrade to Win2003.

The majority of companies that I have talked to about Windows Firewall have it disabled totally. They have real firewalls at the gateways and per-machine firewalls can be a totaly nightmare in a Windows environment.

  -Charles