Configuring Vista firewall

[Mike]

Is it possible for the average Vista user (whatever that is)
to turn on the second half of the Vista firewall ?

I am referring to the outbound filtering portion
of the firewall. It is my understanding that it
is very difficult to (properly) set it up.

I have been reading that the Vista firewall is very
full featured, but that it has so many options, that
it is beyond anything but the most advanced users.

One such article is here
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/01/vista_firewall.html?chan=search
I don't believe everything I read on the internet, but
there must be hundreds of articles on this
subject (if you do a googgle search)

Please help me to understand if I can adjust
the firewall so it is truly a two way firewall,
or if I should just get a third party version
like Zone Labs or ?

Thanks for the help
Mike

 

[CZ]

Is it possible for the average Vista user (whatever that is)
to turn on the second half of the Vista firewall ?

I am referring to the outbound filtering portion
of the firewall. It is my understanding that it
is very difficult to (properly) set it up.

Mike:

I use VistaFirewallControl app (free) for outbound control similar to ZA
free.

http://sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html

 

[Iron Feliks]

to turn on the second half of the Vista firewall ?

I am referring to the outbound filtering portion
of the firewall. It is my understanding that it
is very difficult to (properly) set it up.

Mike:

I use VistaFirewallControl app (free) for outbound control similar to ZA
free.

http://sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html

I use it. It works fine. Why MS left such a control out, I will never
understand.