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Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled

  • From: Eric A. Hall
  • Date: Thu Aug 14 12:09:20 2003 
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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