Re: I am sick of windows firewall

Spack wrote:
The fact is that out of the box pre-SP2 XP
and earlier MS OS's have a number of services running by default that can be
connected to if nothing is there to prevent it

And that's why the Windows Firewall is at least a pretty good idea.
Anyway, the real point is that

the majority of PC
owners are clueless people who have no idea that these are running.

should be forbidden lawfully.

I know they don't - I spend many days fielding phone calls for Microsoft
Press UK trying to explain to people that MS don't supply *any* manuals.

I wonder why I got some after harshly demanding some.

You get some crappy online help, and that's it.

https://support.microsoft.com and https://www.microsoft.com/technet/ are
not crappy.

Right. Get a friend or pay someone who has a clue before connecting to
the web.

Try telling the PC stores to put a sticker saying that on their boxes

They don't need to. It's the users responsibility, and they should
reasonably assume that such a thing exists.

Not everybody who buys a PC knows someone who can help them out

Then they have to pay someone who's profession is to do so.

So you have the addresses of every PC owner on the planet and you're sending
that documentation out? I'll keep my eyes on the post.

I don't keep addresses unnecessarily.
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