Vista Firewall Control
Thanks to hermanhlam for this post in our forum. Vista Firewall Control Protects your applications from undesirable network incoming and outgoing activity, controls applications internet access.
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28.3.2007 Windows Vista to include two-way firewall
So, for those who've been demanding that Microsoft offer a fully functional two-way firewall, your request has been granted. In articles about the December CTP Build 5270, I've seen vague references to this new feature, but to my knowledge no one has yet published any details. So consider this a scoop.
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20.1.2006 Sphinx - Vista Firewall Control 1.0.2
Due to looking for Sphinx software on this forum....this ended up being double posted. Thanks to hermanhlam and odeeee for this download.
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22.7.2007 Microsoft takes down barrier in Vista firewall
The Window's release of Vista early next year will have an updated firewall that looks at incoming and outgoing traffic, said the company. This updated firewall checks outgoing traffic in contrast to XP service pack 2, which only checks incoming traffic.
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28.4.2006 New Windows Vista Firewall Fails on Outbound Security
Analysis: New Windows Vista Firewall Fails on Outbound Security. Microsoft touts Windows Vista's significant security improvements but we've found that the firewall in this OS offers little outbound protection.
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9.2.2007 Kaspersky: Windows Vista Firewall Is Full of Leaks
According to Microsoft, Window Vista is the most secure Windows operating system available on the market.
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27.12.2007 Vista firewall shackled due to customer demand: Microsoft
The firewall in Windows Vista will, by default, have half its protection turned off because that is what enterprise customers have requested, according to the software giant.
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26.4.2006 More screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.5 leak
Folks back at xda forums have caught hold of more Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots which look very real.
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29.1.2009 Windows 7 build 7032 leak + screenshots
Days after the leak of build 7022 (32-bit) to public torrent sites, WinFuture.de has posted a screenshot clearly showing a 64-bit Enterprise edition of build 7032.
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11.2.2009 Internet Leak Reveals Hints Of Windows 8
Microsoft’s Windows 8 and 9 will include a 128-bit architecture, according to a report on PC World’s Web site, which cited a leak from Microsoft's U.S. research and development (R&D) team.
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14.10.2009 Internet Leak Reveals Hints Of Windows 8
Microsoft’s Windows 8 and 9 will include a 128-bit architecture, according to a report on PC World’s Web site, which cited a leak from Microsoft's U.S. research and development (R&D) team.
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15.10.2009 Microsoft roots out Windows Home Server leak + New Build
Microsoft said late yesterday it had identified the person who had leaked the still-in-beta Windows Home Server to the Web. According to both the company and messages from the site where the beta was once posted, however, earlier reports that the leaker was a Microsoft MVP were incorrect.
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19.4.2007 Windows 7 build 7025 screenshots leak with versions info
Microsoft released Windows 7 Beta few weeks ago and the only version that was released during this beta was Windows 7 Ultimate. However, a select testers were invited for a separate Windows 7 Home Premium Beta program.
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25.1.2009 Windows 7 Family Pack, Anytime Upgrade prices leak
Microsoft blogger, Ed Bott, has uncovered the prices for both the Windows 7 Family Pack and Anytime Upgrade options.
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8.7.2009 Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade (WAU) and Family Pack Price Details Leak
Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU), which first introduced for Windows Vista is a sales program from Microsoft to allow customers with cheaper, lower-end and lesser-features editions of Windows 7 to upgrade to more premium edition of Windows 7.
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9.7.2009 Beware of the Firewall
The Internet Engineering Task Force recently held its 68th meeting in the beautiful-but-cloudy city of Prague.
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15.4.2007 The Great Firewall of China
New restrictions on internet news content in China are aimed at controlling an increasingly independent society that is demanding more rights protections, reports and analysts said on Monday.
The new rules issued on Sunday by the State Council, China's Cabinet, require internet operators to re-register their news sites and police their sites for content that can "endanger state security" and "social order".
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Vista vs. XP in Performace Test
Our user thepodest on
his blog compare performance tests of Windows Vista and Windows XP on his computer. Here are the results.
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22.5.2007 New Windows Vista Test Drive Website
"The Windows Vista Business test drive allows you to try this latest operating system from Microsoft..."
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6.1.2007 Windows Vista ReadyBoost Test Round-up
ActiveWin has posted up a review of 3 Windows Vista capable ReadyBoost USB sticks.
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15.1.2007 New Test Version of Windows Vista SP1 Available
But you won't get a download! Microsoft made a new test version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available. The Redmond company is in full throttle with the development of the first service pack for Vista as the refresh will be delivered for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers by mid September.
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4.9.2007 Want to test Vista SP1? Anyone can, starting next week
As you heard here last week, Microsoft is making the Release Candidate (RC) test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers this week and to the general public the week of December 10.
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5.12.2007 New Vista SP1 test build public
After saying it planned to make its latest test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers only, Microsoft has done an about-face and made the code available to the public.
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12.1.2008 Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista
Though Windows 7 edged out Vista in our lab tests, you may not notice much of a difference.
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7.5.2009 Microsoft's OneCare firewall draws fire
The firewall component in Microsoft's Windows OneCare security bundle has holes, experts have warned.
The security software, available in a public beta version, by default allows applications that use the Java Virtual Machine or have a digital signature to connect to the Internet.
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1.2.2006 Introduction to Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
Windows® Firewall with Advanced Security is a stateful, host-based firewall that blocks incoming and outgoing connections based on its configuration.
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19.8.2006 Microsoft Firewall Client for ISA Server
As an ISA Server administrator, you can deploy the Firewall Client software on the client computers in your corporate network.
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17.9.2006 Webroot Desktop Firewall Free 5.5.10.8
Webroot Desktop Firewall is an easy-to-use, two-way, "smart" firewall which protects you against identity and data theft, hackers, and other unauthorized access to your PC.
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20.10.2007 500 Hour Test of Tomorrow's Windows Vista
Only Nine More Months Until Windows Vista Goes Live?
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1.6.2006 Microsoft invites hackers to test Windows Vista
After suffering embarrassing security exploits over the past several years, Microsoft Corp. is trying a new tactic: inviting some of the world's best-known computer experts to try to poke holes in Vista, the next generation of its Windows operating system.
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3.8.2006Kaspersky: Vista Firewall Not Enough Alone
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, has released a new analytical article on using leak tests to evaluate
firewall effectiveness by Nikolay Grebennikov, deputy director of the Department of Innovative Technologies. According to Grebennikov, due to the
increase in the number of malicious programs, the additional security provided by a firewall is increasingly pertinent since firewalls block
undesirable network traffic. He states that even the latest operating systems, such as Windows Vista, cannot block all types of leaks on their own
(although, from Windows XP SP2 onwards, Windows has included a firewall. Firewall functionality was significantly expanded in Windows Vista).
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28.12.2007Enable Vistas two-way firewall with Vista Firewall Control
Microsoft ships Vista with a better firewall than previous versions of Vista but its configuration isnt so great right out of the box and unless you
want to set up rules manually, yourself, its just better to run a third party firewall. But that can pose entirely new problems.
It seems that many
third
party solutions dont play nice with Vista in one or more ways. Some can prevent Vista from retrieving updates, others can freeze the operating
system seemingly at random and others just plain dont work at all.
That leaves running the Vista firewall itself. Running the
firewall thats built in to the operating system is not something I usually recommend unless you have Mac OSX or Linux which arent very prone to any
kind of attack.
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13.01.2008Microsoft Readies Two-Way
Firewall for Vista
Administrator-run firewall
expected to be 'highly
configurable.'..
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26.01.2006Tracing the memory leak: Is it Firefox 3?
Yesterday, we mentioned that we've been noticing recent versions of Firefox, including 3.0.5, have exhibited the memory leak problems that used to
plague Firefox 2. We are noticing this on both Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1.
We'd also noticed that systems where the add-on Tab Mix Plus
was installed, did not appear to exhibit the same memory leak. Today, we uninstalled Tab Mix Plus (reluctantly, because we like it) from one system.
On that system, the memory use pattern has
changed, perhaps moderated, though we're not sure the leak has gone away. It now appears to be
slower than in our tests yesterday, and from time to time, something in Firefox does clean up parts of memory from time to time. In one test,
we had two Firefox windows open with seven tabs open in one of them, a dozen in the other -- a pretty full slate. Task Manager is showing us that
Firefox grabs memory in one-megabyte chunks per second, for about a minute at a time, and then leveling back out to about 300,000 KB.
So if
it's not a leak right now, at least it's a
fight, and we'll let you know what else we find...
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20.01.2009How to Use Firewall Management Solutions to Improve Firewall Performance and Security
Firewall administration involves constantly searching for ways to improve firewall management, increase firewall performance and remove network
security threats. Keeping a firewall properly configured and operating at peak efficiency is a constant challenge for network administrators. With the
right kind of firewall management technology, Knowledge Center contributor Dr. Avishai Wool explains how you can rid your firewall of clutter and
improve its security and performance.
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03.09.2008What's new in the Windows 7 Firewall?
Since the introduction of the first firewall built into the operating system (Internet Connection Firewall) of Windows XP, Microsoft has steadily
improved the firewall in each subsequent incarnation of Windows. While the Windows Firewall included in the newest client OS, Windows 7 is more
evolutionary than revolutionary, it does provide some nice tweaks to make it more user-friendly and at least one big change that makes a difference to
mobile users. In this article, we will take a look at the Windows Firewall in Windows 7 and show you how to configure it with multiple active firewall
policies.
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17.06.2009Windows Live OneCare 1.6 released
After the discussion last week
that Windows Live OneCare 1.6
had been released, it is now
available to all users from
http://onecare.live.com/>oneca
re.live.com. Users already
running OneCare will be
upgraded over the next few
weeks, however you may prefer
not to wait.
Changes
in 1.6 include the ability to
disable the firewall (Firewall
Advanced Settings - Managing
and Sharing) as well as a
monthly report of firewall
activity available from the
OneCare dashboard.
OneCare also improved its
performance in the virus scan
test which saw it placed last
back in February, showing that
as promised, the team is
putting more work into the
OneCare detection.
Unfortunately it is still
ranked 14th out of 17 products
tested. Technical details of
the test are available from
http://www.computerworld.com/a
ction/article.do?command=viewA
rticleBasic&taxonomyName=secur
ity&articleId=9022779&taxonomy
Id=17&intsrc=kc_top>ComputerWo
rld. ..
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02.06.2007What's New With Windows Firewall?
The Windows Firewall was first introduced with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and was later added to Windows Server 2003 as part of Service Pack 1
(SP1). The Windows Firewall was a big improvement over its predecessor, which had no built-in, host-based firewall at all. This initial release was
very basic and included only the most fundamental functionality. With the advent of Vista and Windows Server 2008, the Windows Firewall has been given
a substantial makeover and is now known as Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WFAS). Keep reading for a description of the new features in WFAS
as well as a step-by-step configuration example.
Here is a list of some of the most important new features in WFAS...
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21.03.2008Trend Micro OS Protection beta released
Trend Micro today released
http://www.trendsecure.com/por
tal/en-US/threat_analytics/os_
protect.php?WT.cg_n=home_2nd_r
ight>Trend Micro OS Protection
beta for its Trend Micro
Internet Security 2007
customers. OS protection
includes Trend Micro Firewall
Booster and Trend Micro
Pre-Startup Scan.
Rather than rail against
various kernel changes within
Windows Vista as Symantec and
other did last fall, Trend
Micro says it wanted to work
in cooperation with Microsoft.
Trend Micro OS Protection
works on both the 32-bit and
64-bit editions of Windows
Vista.
The chief
benefit from Trend Micro
Firewall Booster is Windows
Vista users won't have dual
firewall technologies running.
Firewall Booster leverages
existing Windows Vista
Firewall capabilities, adding
protection provided by Trend
Micro. Trend Micro Pre-Startup
Scan runs before Windows Vista
boots, ferreting out sleeping
malware such as rootkits
before engaging the operating
system. Pre-Startup includes a
system restore checkpoint, so
that a user can always roll
back any changes made. The
process is not automatic,
allowing the user to decide
when and how the scans will be
done. ..
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23.06.2007Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 RC4
Released
This version can be installed
on a clean computer as well as
over Outpost Firewall 3.51 and
4.0 RC3
The
following issues are fixed in
Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 RC4
(960.582.055)
- Outpo
st Firewall could crash on
disabling network
adapter
- Compatibility
with antivirus products is
improved
- Outpost
Firewall could crash after
network configuration
modification
- 'Microfreeze'
problems (spontaneous hang-ups
of user interface for several
seconds)
- When logging
in as Power user, Outpost
Firewall produced multiple
Anti-Leak Control prompts
- Self-protection did
not work after updating from
Outpost Firewall 3.51
- System could freeze
on boot up if Spysweeper was
installed on the computer with
Outpost Firewall
- Interface and
localization
issues
Please note
that Outpost Firewall Pro 4.0
Release Candidate is a 30-days
trial and it may be registered
using your valid registration
key from previous version of
Outpost.
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26.09.2006Sunbelt Completes Kerio
Firewall Buy
Sunbelt Software on Tuesday
completed its acquisition of
Kerio's desktop and server
firewall products, a move
which will save the popular
free Kerio Personal Firewall
from its planned retirement.
In addition, Sunbelt is
lowering the price of the full
version to $19.95...
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21.12.2005Sunbelt Saves Kerio Personal
Firewall
Sunbelt Software, maker of a
number of security and
anti-spyware applications, has
saved the day by acquiring
Kerio Personal Firewall, which
was due to be discontinued at
the end of the year. Sunbelt
says it will continue to offer
a free version of the firewall
for home users...
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02.12.2005Windows Firewall Flaw Hides Open Ports
Microsoft earlier this week confirmed a flaw exists in the way the user interface for its Windows Firewall handles bad entries in the Windows Registry, but said the problem was not a security vulnerability. An exception could be created that would open a hole in the Windows Firewall...
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02.09.2005Symantec Axes Sygate Personal
Firewall
The first casualty from
Symantec's acquisition of
Sygate in August is official:
Both the free and paid version
of Sygate Personal Firewall
have been axed due to an
overlap with Norton Personal
Firewall. Users will be given
a discounted upgrade path to
Symantec's product, which
runs $37.49 USD...
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29.11.2005Overview of the Windows Server 2008 Firewall with Advanced Security Part 1
Windows Server 2008 introduces a new and improved firewall; the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. The new Windows firewall introduces many
improvements and is very similar to the firewall that was included with Windows Vista. Features included with the new Windows Firewall with Advanced
Security include:
- Granular inbound access control
- Granular outbound access control
- Tight integration
with the Windows Server 2008 Server Manager, with automatic configuration of the firewall when services are installed using the Server Manager
- Highly improved IPsec policy configuration and management, and a name change. IPsec policies are now referred to as Connection Security Rules
- Improved monitoring of firewall policy
- Improved monitoring of IPsec policies (now called Connection Security Rules)
- Improved centralized monitoring of Main and Quick Mode Security Associations
There are many configuration options included with the
Windows Firewall, so this article will be split into three parts, this first part is about basic general configuration options for the firewall and
for IPsec policies. The second part will focus on how to create inbound and outbound rules, and the third part will hone in how to create connection
security rules.
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28.05.2008Microsoft: we let you down with XP
"We let you down with Windows
XP". So stated Steve Riley,
in an afternoon session today
at Tech.Ed Australia, entitled
"Making the Tradeoff: Be
Secure or Get Work Done".
He was
referring to that oft-maligned
piece of client software,
Windows Firewall “ "We gave
you a firewall, and then we
turned it off," he said
sheepishly.
Its not often that a
Microsoft spokesperson will
openly state what the rest of
us have always known, but then
Steve isnt known for dodging
awkward topics .
Having said that, its
relatively safe to make that
statement so late in the
piece, now that anyone with a
Windows XP machine disables
the firewall as an essential
first step and then installs
some freeware which does the
job admirably, or just uses
Windows Vista, which contains
the firewall capabilities that
Windows XP should have had.
"We let you
down"? We know!
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08.08.2007Overview of the Windows Server 2008 Firewall with Advanced Security Part 2
In the first part of this three part series on configuring the Windows Server 2008 Firewall with Advanced Security, we went over some of the global
configuration settings that apply to the firewall. In this article, well take a look at the inbound and outbound firewall rules that you can create to
control incoming and outgoing connections to and from the Windows Server 2008 computer.
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10.06.2008Windows Live OneCare Firewall Repair Tool
This support tool is intended for customers whose OneCare firewall reports that it cannot install a required upgrade or cannot turn on the firewall.
This tool is NOT intended to diagnose or treat more specific functionality issues such as opening or closing ports, allowing applications, or
otherwise.
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22.11.2007First Conviction Handed Down in HP Leak Case
A Colorado private
investigator has pleaded
guilty to identity theft and
conspiracy charges, both
felony counts, in association
with the boardroom leak
scandal that shook electronics
maker Hewlett Packard to its
core...
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15.01.2007Outpost Firewall Pro 4.0.971.584 released
Outpost Firewall Pro, provides
a superior arsenal of defense
against PC infiltration by
denying unauthorized access by
remote hackers and protecting
against data theft,
denial-of-service attacks,
privacy violation, Trojan
horses, spyware and more. Four
major criteria define Outpost
Firewall Pro: security,
control, privacy and ease of
use.
Agnitum
released an update to their
popular firewall product,
Outpost. This update fixes
lots of bugs and provides
improvements to the anti-leak
feature which made it's way
into the last public build.
Click read more for the
changelog.
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