Help, Vista's firewall started to work with outbound traffic, and I don't know how to stop it!!!!!

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear friends:

Help, Vista's firewall started to work with outbound traffic, and I
don't know how to stop it!!!!!

I don't know why, but as a result of this, my computer has become very
slow. How can I return to the standard firewall inbound traffic check
only?


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Richard Urban]

Did you install Vista Firewall Control?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



Dear friends:

Help, Vista's firewall started to work with outbound traffic, and I
don't know how to stop it!!!!!

I don't know why, but as a result of this, my computer has become very
slow. How can I return to the standard firewall inbound traffic check
only?


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Is this a free application recommended in the last issue of PC World
to control Vista's firewall? If it is, yes, but I didn't have the time
to use it.

Did you install Vista Firewall Control?

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Richard Urban]

Vista Firewall Control will ask you to approve outbound traffic. That is
what it is all about. Just say "allow all", or allow always and you will not
be bothered for that program again.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



Is this a free application recommended in the last issue of PC World
to control Vista's firewall? If it is, yes, but I didn't have the time
to use it.

Did you install Vista Firewall Control?

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Ian]

You can set by going Control Panel/Security Centre and chose the firewall
reset link.



Dear friends:

Help, Vista's firewall started to work with outbound traffic, and I
don't know how to stop it!!!!!

I don't know why, but as a result of this, my computer has become very
slow. How can I return to the standard firewall inbound traffic check
only?


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Dear friends:

Help, Vista's firewall started to work with outbound traffic, and I
don't know how to stop it!!!!!

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What are you talking about?

A firewall always works with outbound traffic. The programs running on the
computer that communicate over the Internet to another program are always
sending outbound traffic.


I don't know why, but as a result of this, my computer has become very
slow. How can I return to the standard firewall inbound traffic check
only?

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Thanks a lot, Richard.

I solved the problem uninstalling that program, *AND* restoring the
system to the state immediately previous to its installation.

The Firewall returned to its "inbound traffic only" status, like
originally in Vista or XP.

Vista Firewall Control will ask you to approve outbound traffic. That is
what it is all about. Just say "allow all", or allow always and you willnot
be bothered for that program again.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Sorry Arnold, but you are wrong. WinXP firewall checks, by design,
inbound traffic only, as also does Vista firewall in its default
configuration, as set by Microsoft.

Dear friends:

Help, Vista's firewall started to work with outbound traffic, and I
don't know how to stop it!!!!!

====

What are you talking about?

A firewall always works with outbound traffic. The programs running on the
computer that communicate over the Internet to another program are always
sending outbound traffic.


I don't know why, but as a result of this, my computer has become very
slow. How can I return to the standard firewall inbound traffic check
only?

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It sounds to me like you have malware running on the machine that's sending
dubious outbound traffic, it's slowing the machine down, you need to find it
and remove the malware.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Guest]

Juan, you are wrong. Go to control Panel, security, Windoes Firewall> Allow a
program to go out.

And XP was like it too.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Sorry Arnold, but you are wrong. WinXP firewall checks, by design,
inbound traffic only, as also does Vista firewall in its default
configuration, as set by Microsoft.

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You want to show me where I said anything about the FW stopping outbound
traffic.

The FW doesn't stop outbound traffic by design. A FW by default stops all
unsolicited inbound traffic by design. If a FW is to stop outbound traffic,
if it has those capabilities, then rules have to be set to stop the
outbound, because by design, there are no default rules for a FW to stop
outbound traffic.

Dear friends:

Help, Vista's firewall started to work with outbound traffic, and I
don't know how to stop it!!!!!

====

What are you talking about?

A firewall always works with outbound traffic. The programs running on the
computer that communicate over the Internet to another program are always
sending outbound traffic.


I don't know why, but as a result of this, my computer has become very
slow. How can I return to the standard firewall inbound traffic check
only?

-------

It sounds to me like you have malware running on the machine that's sending
dubious outbound traffic, it's slowing the machine down, you need to find
it
and remove the malware.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[...winston]

Mick,
With respect to XP
FYI on XPSP2 Windows Firewall
'Allow a program' is an exception for outside(inbound) communication to the allowed application.
The in vs. out has been discussed at length since XP was released and again with XPsp2.
Additional reading:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457156.aspx
"Windows Firewall will automatically allow all outbound connections, regardless of the program and the user context."
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/05_jan12_win_fw.mspx
"There are no plans to implement outbound filtering in the Windows firewall "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Firewall
"Windows Firewall cannot block outbound connections; it is only capable of blocking inbound ones"

....winston
MS-MVP WLMd

: Juan, you are wrong. Go to control Panel, security, Windoes Firewall> Allow a
: program to go out.
:
: And XP was like it too.