Vist Firewall Outgoing?

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I had heard Vista's firewall only stopped incoming nasties. It appears that
in the final release outgoing non-approved programs are also flagged and
stopped? Can someone confirm that?

Installed VHP on Grandson's computer and was going to add a third party
firewall, but from what I could see, the inbuilt one was doing a good job.
Certainly Shields Up (https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2) gave it a 100%
stealth attaboy for incoming, but need to be re-assured the outgoing is
monitored and blocked.

Thanks
Frenchy
 
Frenchy said:
I had heard Vista's firewall only stopped incoming nasties. It appears
that in the final release outgoing non-approved programs are also flagged
and stopped? Can someone confirm that?

Installed VHP on Grandson's computer and was going to add a third party
firewall, but from what I could see, the inbuilt one was doing a good job.
Certainly Shields Up (https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2) gave it a
100% stealth attaboy for incoming, but need to be re-assured the outgoing
is monitored and blocked.

Thanks
Frenchy
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Vista does have outbound filtering, but it is not on by default :-)
 
/Frenchy/ said:
I had heard Vista's firewall only stopped incoming nasties. It appears that
in the final release outgoing non-approved programs are also flagged and
stopped? Can someone confirm that?

Installed VHP on Grandson's computer and was going to add a third party
firewall, but from what I could see, the inbuilt one was doing a good job.
Certainly Shields Up (https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2) gave it a 100%
stealth attaboy for incoming, but need to be re-assured the outgoing is
monitored and blocked.
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START button|HELP & SUPPORT

Works both ways
 
Frenchy said:
I had heard Vista's firewall only stopped incoming nasties. It appears
that in the final release outgoing non-approved programs are also flagged
and stopped? Can someone confirm that?

Installed VHP on Grandson's computer and was going to add a third party
firewall, but from what I could see, the inbuilt one was doing a good job.
Certainly Shields Up (https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2) gave it a
100% stealth attaboy for incoming, but need to be re-assured the outgoing
is monitored and blocked.
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You can configure the firewall to block outbound traffic by pressing Start
and typing Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and hitting enter.

Although in all honesty if you have to worry about outgoing data then your
system has *already* been compromised.

Steve Gibson is also a, shall we say, controversial figure then it comes to
security.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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/Paul Smith/ said:
You can configure the firewall to block outbound traffic by pressing Start
and typing Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and hitting enter.
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A good tip. Can this interface be accessed in another manner - perhaps
via Control Panel?
 
I had heard Vista's firewall only stopped incoming nasties. It appearsin the final release outgoing non-approved programs are also flagged and
stopped? Can someone confirm that?

Frenchy:

Vista's f/w outbound control is "set to allow all if there is not a rule to
disallow" by default.

IMO, a good solution to outbound control is to use one of the following:

1) VistaFirewallControl app (free) for outbound control similar to ZA free.
Run it with the Vista f/w unless you are behind a NAT-router.
http://sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html

2) PC Tools Firewall is a more full featured f/w, but there are some bugs in
the current version.
http://www.pctools.com/firewall/
 
I just wiped off PCTools Vista Firewall Plus.

The damn thing kept chewing up resources an an ever increasing rate. After
being up for 6-8 hours my CPU usage was constantly over 45%. My RAM usage
was up to 65-70%.

If I shut down the firewall my CPU usage immediately dropped to 4-8% and the
RAM usage decreased to about 23%.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
Frenchy said:
I had heard Vista's firewall only stopped incoming nasties. It appears
that in the final release outgoing non-approved programs are also flagged
and stopped? Can someone confirm that?

Installed VHP on Grandson's computer and was going to add a third party
firewall, but from what I could see, the inbuilt one was doing a good job.
Certainly Shields Up (https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2) gave it a
100% stealth attaboy for incoming, but need to be re-assured the outgoing
is monitored and blocked.

Thanks
Frenchy
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Control Panel/Admin Tools/Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0106.mspx
 
Control Panel/Administrative Tools.

Or you can create a shortcut to: %SystemRoot%\system32\WF.msc
 
Durn. I'd sure like to hear about a good, simple, free firewall that
works properly. Vista Firewall Control for outgoing and the Windows
Vista Firewall for incoming seems the best option so far.
 
It seems to be the way to go right now.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
I just wiped off PCTools Vista Firewall Plus.
The damn thing kept chewing up resources an an ever increasing rate. After
being up for 6-8 hours my CPU usage was constantly over 45%. My RAM usage
was up to 65-70%.
If I shut down the firewall my CPU usage immediately dropped to 4-8% and the
RAM usage decreased to about 23%.

Richard:

Their support forum has a post from the developer that an update is
immanent.
 
They need it. What memory leakage. I can't figure out the CPU usage though.
In Task Manager PCTools Firewall doesn't show much being used. svchost is
chewing it up. When I shut down PCTools Firewall, svchost drops right away
and the CPU usage drops to damn nothing.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
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