PCWorld - Privacy Watch: Surprise! You May Have More Firewall Than You Need

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By Erik Larkin
Jun 21, 2007

When Microsoft shipped Windows Vista, it included an upgraded firewall that enabled Windows--for the first time--to filter outgoing connections from your computer. But the company elected to turn off the outbound filtering by default and even made the feature hard to access. Smart, security-conscious people cried foul, saying that Microsoft had dropped the ball.

But Microsoft was right: You don't need outbound filtering.

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