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Re: [Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled]
From: John Kinsella <jlk () thrashyour com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:10:23 -0700
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:46:56AM -0400, Joshua Sahala wrote:
while i think many of us will welcome this, i am skeptical of what the firewall will be 'enabled' to block, and how easy it will be for the user to set-up rules (and hopefully there will be a sanity check included so that 'permit in any' is not a valid option, but then 'permit out any' should not be one either) but still, it is a step...
It's a pretty rudimentary "firewall," I suspect enabling that by default is gonna piss off a hell of a lot of people (I'd venture to say it'll piss off more than a virus, since most are too clueless to get mad at that). John
Current thread:
- Re: [Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled] Joshua Sahala (Aug 14)
- Re: [Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled] John Kinsella (Aug 14)
- Re: [Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled] Daniel Senie (Aug 14)
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- RE: [Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled] Vachon, Scott (Aug 14)