[60583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Thu Aug 14 12:07:56 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:07:18 -0500
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0308141023300.14665-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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?
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