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Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled
From: Richard Cox <Richard () mandarin com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:37:44 +0100
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:07 UTC, "Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com> wrote: | Wouldn't it make more sense to ship with all of the services disabled? Yes it would - at least to US - but that would inevitably create a load for the Support desk. However as Microsoft charge for end-user support I wouldn't put it past them thinking along those lines. I hope there's nobody from Microsoft reading this list ... that might give them ideas! | 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? That wouldn't make sense at all. What that would do is give the user a false sense of security: it is just as important to block activities by unauthorised programs ("trojans" etc) as it is to protect services installed as part of the operating system. What I do like in the latest release of Zone Alarm Pro is that it will stop ANY program from connecting outbound on Port 25 unless that program has been specifically authorised to send mail. It was quite informative to see which programs were trying to mail information back to their base! -- Richard Cox RC1500-RIPE
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)
- RE: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled JC Dill (Aug 14)
- East Coast outage? Aaron D. Britt (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? up (Aug 14)