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Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:07:18 -0500
on 8/14/2003 9:29 AM Sean Donelan 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.
Wouldn't it make more sense to ship with all of the services disabled? I mean, if the role of the firewall is to block packets to weak services, wouldn't it be simpler to just disable the damn services since they aren't going to be usable anyway? -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
Current thread:
- Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Sean Donelan (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Eric A. Hall (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Greg Maxwell (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Scott McGrath (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Richard Cox (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Crist Clark (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Omachonu Ogali (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Omachonu Ogali (Aug 14)
- Big power outage in Ontario ? Mike Tancsa (Aug 14)
- Re: Big power outage from NYC Robert Cannon (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Greg Maxwell (Aug 14)
- Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Eric A. Hall (Aug 14)
- RE: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled Daniel Senie (Aug 14)