CNET on Vista's firewall

[CZ]

FYI:

This is why I use the Vista Firewall Control utility:

From http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6690672-1.html
"Outbound protection is.where?
In an e-mail, Rowan Trollope, Vice President of Consumer Engineering at
Symantec, offered this interpretation: "We have discovered that though
Vista's outbound firewall is 'on' by default, all outbound connects that do
not match a rule are allowed. In the default configuration, there are no
outbound 'block' rules, only allow rules. In other words, even though [the
Windows Firewall outbound protection is] on, it is not doing anything."

 

[Rock]

FYI:

This is why I use the Vista Firewall Control utility:

From http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6690672-1.html
"Outbound protection is.where?
In an e-mail, Rowan Trollope, Vice President of Consumer Engineering at
Symantec, offered this interpretation: "We have discovered that though
Vista's outbound firewall is 'on' by default, all outbound connects that
do not match a rule are allowed. In the default configuration, there are
no outbound 'block' rules, only allow rules. In other words, even though
[the Windows Firewall outbound protection is] on, it is not doing
anything."

The vista firewall is configurable. You can change it so that the default
is to not allow any outbound and then create rules for what you want to
allow. If you prevent malware from getting on then you don't have to worry
about what is phoning home. I used VFC and found it had problems. It
caused a certain small file in the \windows\system32\wfp\ folder to be read
continuously. I had to uninstall the program.

By the way you have posted this same message to different newsgroups. If
you need to post to multiple groups do it as crossposting, sending one
message to different groups at the same time, rather than multiposting,
sending it separately to different groups.