Story: SP2's firewall is not good enough

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Commenting on the first user comment,
"I installed SP2, I uninstalled ZoneAlarm and tested Windows Firewall out with three programs. Kazaa Lite, Poser 4 and Agent. It blocked ALL three successfully and prompted me as to wether I wanted them unblocked."

I beg to differ. I went to play and Internet game (Command & Conquer Renegade) and was expecting to see the windows firewall ask if I wanted to let it access the Internet. However, despite using a anti-cheat patch with the game (renguard) which also needed the internet, it did not ask if I wanted to let this pass, and after 2 hours of playing I noticed windows firewall had asked me whether I wanted to unblock Renegade to play, but I managed to play 2 hours on Renegade (before I was disconnected by my ISP), despite the dialogue coming up to ask whether I wanted to ‘unblock’ it.
After this event, I wouldn’t trust windows firewall with a bag of peanuts anymore, not that I ever did. I always had my doubts about windows firewall, and its just a good thing I had Zone Alarm working, otherwise I could have been in big trouble.

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