Windows Vista's Firewall offers false sense of security
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| 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.
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http://content.zdnet.com/2346-10741_22-53425-1.html
Dear Windows Vista Firewall...
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| When I ask you (repeatedly, and on multiple occasions) to turn off,
| why do you insist on re-activating yourself at random? Please go away.
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http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/dear-windows-vista-firewall/
Related:
Installing A PS/2 Mouse Turns Off Firewall, Huh!
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| I plugged in the PS/2 mouse, rebooted the PC and on restart XP found the
| PS/2 mouse and suggested rebooting again, which I did. When it restarted
| the Microsoft Firewall had been switched off. How do I know, because it
| told me I had no firewall.
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http://crunchysoftware.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/ps2-mouse-turns-off-firewall/
There is also a lot of criticism of Vista's built-in firewall, which if I
recall correctly, permits all outgoing traffic by default. It's about not
trying to break enterprise applications, I imagine, but security is clearly
compromised here.
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