[ros-general] Re: TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall

Richard Campbell eek2121 at comcast.net
Wed Nov 16 22:28:24 UTC 2005


I'm sorry but the windows firewall is a joke.  It can be controlled from 
the command line, i can even add my own rule without the user ever knowing.

TwoTailedFox wrote:

>Windows XP RTM Shipped with a Firewall
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>It was called, rather cryptically, "Internet Connection Firewall". In
>SP2, it got a name change, and a better GUI added on top of, pretty
>much existing functionality.
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>On 11/16/05, David Hinz <post.center at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Murphy, Ged (Bolton) schrieb:
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>> All new copies of windows xp run at least sp2, which isn't
>>subject to the exploits the original release was.
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>> No, but it has a whole host of other vunls. It's not just the operating
>>system though, in fact in most cases it's not the operating system which is
>>attacked, it's the software which runs on it. What good is SP2 then
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>> Well, the good thing with SP2 is, that Microsoft adds a firewall to Windows
>>XP with this SP ;-)
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