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DEL.ICIO.USMessing with Vista’s firewall
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The big complaint against the firewall included with Microsoft’s new Vista has been that it only guards one gate - the gate into your computer. It, by default, ignores traffic leaving your computer. So if your computer has a program that sends out information secretly - like one that records your keystrokes and then reports back to some crook with that information - the firewall doesn’t catch it.
But here’s a story that first makes a good argument that monitoring outbound traffic is too complex for most home users. Then, it offers a way to enable outbound monitoring if you think you’re up to the task.
Not exciting reading, but worth saving I think.
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