The different Outbound Rule Types
After clicking on "New Rule" on the "Outbound Rules" display, we were offered four types of rules: Program, Port, Predefined, and Custom. Since we just wanted to block Firefox, we picked "Program." We expected a list of programs like the exceptions list we saw in the Windows other firewall configuration tool. But, that's not exactly what we got next.
For David Berlind's write-up on Vista's inadequate personal firewall, see his blog post in ZDNet's TestBed blog.
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 | Log in | Terms of Use
Users would gripe...
Marty R. Milette | 02/06/07
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I guess the thing to do is
M.Fridholm | 02/10/07
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Which users?
Absolutely | 07/10/07
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So, essentially, "Deny All Except" is impossible?
TripleII | 02/06/07
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THIS IS REALLY A COMPUTER!
BALTHOR | 02/06/07
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Hmmmm... Buy Vista because...?
davidt@... | 02/06/07
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Hmmmm lets see . . .
wgraue | 02/06/07
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Keystone cops anyone?
edinnc@... | 02/06/07
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Sanskrit and bad similes
takas20 | 02/07/07
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Relax...
tubr0 | 02/07/07
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But you CAN block all outgoing....
Crash2975 | 02/07/07
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yiou CANNOT Block Outbound anything w/ AFW
JorgeDW | 03/31/09
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Other Firewalls.
jeroldo@... | 02/08/07
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Thanks Crash2975
reefgroup@... | 02/08/07
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Web Page Errors winvista
vistahater63 | 02/10/07
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