Re: XP's Firewall

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:42:23 GMT, Leythos <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't like "Personal Firewalls", but, even as crappy as the Windows
Firewall is

It's crappy in your opinion. Not in mine.

they have a place for any user connecting to an
unknown/untrusted network.

No. Not for ANY user. For users offering services of some kind - or
for users with unpatched machines (since you seem to be focused on
being precise).

As an example, I always use a PFW solution on our laptops when connecting
to any network outside of our secure network
in the office - even customers networks that we've designed. I use the
inbound reporting/monitoring features to see what traffic is hitting my
node in their network in addition to monitoring their firewall device.

Good for you.

I don't like Windows XP Firewall because it's not informative, allows
changes to be made without users understanding and sometimes without
knowing about the changes, and because there is no real-time reporting
on inbound and outbound.

And that's your opinion - based on your needs. Many users have no need
for that info.
.

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