From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Security is our mantra?

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 Vista To Handcuff Firewall

Microsoft plans to turn off half the firewall in Windows Vista when the new
operating system ships later this year. The reason: It doesn't think most
users need all the firewall's functionality or can handle its management.

 Apr 27, 2006 03:56 PM

Microsoft confirmed Thursday that it plans to turn off half the firewall in
Windows Vista when the new operating system ships later this year because
it doesn't think most users need all the firewall's functionality or can
handle its management.

Although Vista's firewall will ship with both in- and outbound filtering
capabilities, the latter will be disabled by default. Corporate users,
however, can turn on outbound if they wish.

"Inbound filtering is on by default and outbound filtering for
applications is configurable by enterprise administrators through Group
Policy," said a Microsoft spokesperson.

Microsoft has been promoting Vista's firewall as better than XP's because
it's able to stop both incoming attacks and filter outbound traffic. But
with it enabled only for incoming data, the end result is a defense
identical to Windows XP SP2, which has an incoming-only firewall that's
automatically enabled.


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