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And there it is, hiding under an obvious rock to turn over (not)

And there it is, hiding under an obvious rock to turn over (not)
There, on the bottom of the list is "Windows Firewall and Advanced Security." We're warning you though. If you are a mortal Windows user (like most), what you will see next may frighten you.

For David Berlind's write-up on Vista's inadequate personal firewall, see his blog post in ZDNet's TestBed blog.
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yiou CANNOT Block Outbound anything w/ AFW
CRASH, you are mistaken & appeantly didn't TEST your configuration after creating it.
Try & block IM or anything outbound and you will find that AFW Allows ALL outbound traffic regardlwess of AFW Rules!... (Read the rest)
Posted by: JorgeDW Posted on: 03/31/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Users would gripe...  Marty R. Milette | 02/06/07
I guess the thing to do is  M.Fridholm | 02/10/07
Which users?  Absolutely | 07/10/07
So, essentially, "Deny All Except" is impossible?  TripleII | 02/06/07
THIS IS REALLY A COMPUTER!  BALTHOR | 02/06/07
Hmmmm... Buy Vista because...?  davidt@... | 02/06/07
Hmmmm lets see . . .  wgraue | 02/06/07
Keystone cops anyone?  edinnc@... | 02/06/07
Sanskrit and bad similes  takas20 | 02/07/07
Relax...  tubr0 | 02/07/07
But you CAN block all outgoing....  Crash2975 | 02/07/07
yiou CANNOT Block Outbound anything w/ AFW  JorgeDW | 03/31/09
Other Firewalls.  jeroldo@... | 02/08/07
Thanks Crash2975  reefgroup@... | 02/08/07
Web Page Errors winvista  vistahater63 | 02/10/07

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