From: "Geo" 

I don't know for sure but it sounds like it's just making the firewall
mandatory if you aren't fully patched.

Geo.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> I guess what I was getting at was -  Is the Vista firewall thus ensuring
> that security updates are madatory once it sees an update is available?
>
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
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> >I think in this case it just means incoming connections not incoming
> > traffic. IE, stuff that isn't initiated by the local machine.
> >
> > Geo.

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