Vista's two-faced firewall inspected, called out

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Jeremy @ Feb 6th 2007 6:17PM

This is rather assinine.

MS is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't in this case. I have witnessed first hand what happens when a lay-user uses a computer that has a "two-way" firewall installed...They get tired of getting pop ups about every application that needs outbound access and eventually call someone (me) to find out how to just allow everything.

It's a full time job now just helping my dad to understand when to/not-to update some application when it asks and even worse what to not install at all (i.e. google/yahoo/etc toolbar options). It would be a nightmare trying to explain every little firewall popup and what it's trying to do and why this one's good and this one's bad, etc.

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