Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Feb 2007 20:29 UTC, submitted by Jennifer Logan
"What is it with the Windows Vista Firewall and its refusal to go away? All our PCs are secured behind two firewalls: a hardware firewall and Microsoft ISA Server. The only traffic that gets in is the traffic that we want to get in. Now we can appreciate having the firewall on by default; but after turning it off over 20 times, it's getting to be too much."
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2006-04-10
First of all, no one has confirmed his observations. He could be doing something wrong, or just trying to bash. If it is true, it is a bug. Lets hope he has reported it to Microsoft, if not he is complaining in the wrong place.
About the firewall.. Disabling the software firewall is just plain stupid. There is no reason to do so, and by doing so you are removing a security-layer (cant get enough of those). In larger installations it can be controlled with group-policies. In a SBS domain the clients cant even disable it by default (dont know if thats default for a win2k3 domain too?).
Edited 2007-02-19 15:32