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Old February 14th 09, 08:29 AM posted to microsoft.public.vb.vista.compatibility,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance,microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
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Default Microsoft Windows Vista includes a two-way firewall. TO THE TOP
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Unfortunately, the outbound filtering has been disabled. I'm not quite sure
why Microsoft made this decision but from a security point of view it would
have made perfect sense to have it enabled by default. I suspect it's due to
Microsoft not wanting to frustrate customers when their internet dependent
applications suddenly stopped working.

Who need and want to turn it on will also know how to do it.

The opposite would make trouble to huge number of nontech people.
Clicking allow/deny while having no idea what I exactly did
is not more secure and can mess windows alot.




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