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."Because the nature of an outbound firewall is to restrict the traffic sent to specific ports, the outgoing access in the Windows Vista firewall is open by default," a representative for the software maker told ZDNet Australia. "The reason for this is Microsoft has received strong feedback from its customers, especially from large organizations and government departments, saying that they would like to manage this feature from an administrator level."Configuring the Vista firewall to stop outgoing connections made by rogue applications and malicious software will require a varying degree of technical knowledge, depending on each user's security requirements, Microsoft said.Firewall specialist Zone Labs said that people will require a "fairly high level of sophistication" in order to properly configure the Vista firewall. For consumers, the company said the task will be nothing less than "challenging." News source: CNetRead full story...
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