Re: [Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled]

[Joshua Sahala <joshua.ej.smith () usa net>]

Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
> John Markoff reports in the New York Times that Microsoft plans to change
> how it ships Windows XP due to the worm.  In the future Microsoft will
> ship both business and consumer verisons of Windows XP with the included
> firewall enabled by default.

while i think many of us will welcome this, i am skeptical of what
the firewall will be 'enabled' to block, and how easy it will be
for the user to set-up rules (and hopefully there will be a sanity
check included so that 'permit in any' is not a valid option, but
then 'permit out any' should not be one either)
but still, it is a step...

my $0.02


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