Vista's firewall to be half open

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Aron Schatz

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Vista's firewall to be half open

Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:05:50 AM #17162 Perm Link

Microsoft will release Vista with its firewall set to not block outgoing connections.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Vista_firewall_shackled_due_to_customer_demand_Microsoft/0,2000061744,39252954,00.htm

It has the ability to act like a true firewall, but Microsoft hasn't learned from past mistakes to turn on security features by default, yet.

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Re: Vista's firewall to be half open

Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:53:44 PM #17202 Perm Link

In response to Aron Schatz #17162

Like I said, can't trust Microsoft. After the fiasco of Blaster and Sasser, you would think that Microsoft would finally be concerned with security first.

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Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:28:38 PM #17212 Perm Link

The positive way to look at this is that the firewall is half closed!

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Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:13:47 AM #17213 Perm Link

I think "half" closed is being optimistic. Screw Microsoft.

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Aron Schatz

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Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:16:58 AM #17220 Perm Link

It is bad that they still don't know that security should be above whatever else.

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Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:39:13 AM #17224 Perm Link

I doubt they are even capable of adding good security. Windows' hiostory up to wMe in short form: added more and more rudimentary layers onto the (pirated?) DOS operating system. for Windows NT: employed a bunch of excellent VMS OS designers, let them create a nice system core and add a lot of old bloated DOS/WIndows code to it for backwards compatibility. XP: take NT and add more backwards compatibility bloat.

Noone has enough resources to clean that up and make money at the same time.

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Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:33:30 PM #17268 Perm Link

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If Microsoft had some balls to strip off legacy code, the OS would be so much better.

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Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:39:51 PM #17274 Perm Link

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Interested way to look at the issue... it doesn't change anything, though. Speculation that they can make a good product.

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Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:14:01 AM #17294 Perm Link

backwards compatibility is a good thing... Microsoft went the wrong way: bloating. Apple went the right way: emulation, as in Classic mode, Rosetta...
Microsoft haven't made a good product by the standard of the age since Windows NT 3.5 (well, I might be exadurating)

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Aron Schatz

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Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:23:31 AM #17296 Perm Link

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Windows 2000 is still the only MS OS I personally use.

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