Story: SP2's firewall is not good enough

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Windows "Firewall" failed several leak tests which I imposed; even the age-old grc.com test.

The only thing Window's firewall does do is make you appear invisable on the Internet [stealth mode]. It doesn't, however, block all outgoing traffic, only traffic it deems to be bad or threat worthy and even then it just blocked it anyway, without your consent. As a sort of ironic twist, it even tried to block Internet Explorer from going on the network.

If you want a Firewall which allows you, the user, to decide whether or not a programme should be connected to the Internet [which should be none, really, apart from Internet browsers] then choose a good quality Firewall, like ZoneAlarm.

But if you're an ignorant computer user with little knowledge and feel that Window's Firewall is okay, then use it.

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