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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."
Hard to set up in a way that doesn't actually fuck with the user's programs. let's block outbound traffic! apart from port 80, and port 443, and whatever MSN messenger uses, and however google earth talks to the servers, and smtp but ONLY to the isp, and pop3 and imap and pop3-ssl and imap-ssl and ...
Sounds like a great way to encourage many apps developers to use port 80 where they can (just like Google Earth)
As for apps that need outbound & can't use port 80, they can just prompt the user. Its not rocket science.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
I can't agree to that. Many of us feel that Windows works best not connected to the internet. Two way traffic blocking was a good attempt at that.
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