[60570] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kinsella)
Thu Aug 14 11:14:55 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:10:23 -0700
From: John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>
In-Reply-To: <233HHNoU59872S17.1060872416@uwdvg017.cms.usa.net>
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:46:56AM -0400, Joshua Sahala wrote:
> 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...
It's a pretty rudimentary "firewall," I suspect enabling that by default
is gonna piss off a hell of a lot of people (I'd venture to say it'll
piss off more than a virus, since most are too clueless to get mad at
that).
John
