Microsoft XP Firewall

[sunfire2kxtreme]

I would assume that the people that answered this
question:

" If the firewall in XP really work, then why after
downloading a free firewall has it blocked over 160 hits
in less than 12 hours.

The XP firewall is still enabled, too. "

did not know why or the firewall really does not work in
XP!

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Subject: Microsoft XP Firewall
From: "sunfire2kxtreme"
<[email protected]> Sent: 1/26/2004
4:43:56 AM

-----Original Message-----

If the firewall in XP really work, then why after
downloading a free firewall has it blocked over 160 hits
in less than 12 hours.

The XP firewall is still enabled, too.

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Subject: Re: Microsoft XP Firewall
From: "Rifleman" <[email protected]> Sent: 1/26/2004
4:09:40 AM

"sunfire2kxtreme" <[email protected]>
wrote in message


If the firewall in XP really work, then why after
downloading a free firewall has it blocked over 160 hits
in less than 12 hours.

The XP firewall is still enabled, too.

the freeware firewall you installed TELLS you it's done
it, the XP firewall
does NOT tell you it's done it, it just does the job
quietly.

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Subject: Re: Microsoft XP Firewall
From: "sunfire2kxtreme"
<[email protected]> Sent: 1/26/2004
4:19:45 AM

-----Original Message-----

"sunfire2kxtreme" <[email protected]>
wrote in message

If the firewall in XP really work, then why after
downloading a free firewall has it blocked over 160 hits
in less than 12 hours.

The XP firewall is still enabled, too.
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Because the other firewall is testing before the XP
firewall does.

Tom Lake

Capaci Occasio

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Then with what you have just replied, then why did the XP
firewall never ask if it was ok to download, access the
Road Runner Messenger, software updates, ...... as the
free downloaded software does?

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Further more, if the XP firewall does it for you, why
does it not ask if you want to block it or not?

From what it has done, it let's it in and does not ask if
you what it or not.

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

See
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/Plan/icf.asp

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Roger Abell]

1. Inbound depends on which is lower on the network stack
and gets to see the incoming traffic first
2. Outbound is because XP ICF is not intended to interfere
with what originates on the machine