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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled
At 10:29 -0400 8/14/03, Sean Donelan wrote: Not being an XP user I haven't confirmed this personally, but I'm told that when an XP box with the latest updates/packs/whatever has IPv6 turned on, the included IPv6 "firewall" is automatically enabled with all inbound connections blocked. Apparently this change was made when they started including the p2p kit. I did recently see a case where an XP machine refused to answer IPv6 pings, and suspect that this was behind it. . .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. Bill.
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