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What is a firewall? Understanding the security measure that protects against cyber threats

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CNET

Windows Firewall: It's a lose-lose proposition

Free firewalls offer the outbound monitoring that's missing in XP's firewall and off by default (and impractical) in Vista, but third-party tools may create problems of their own. Dennis O'Reilly ...
Ars Technica

Windows Firewall: Why does it block everything that's not on the local subnet?

I've just setup IPsec on my router (pfSense) and my IPsec clients have a different subnet (192.168.10.0/24) than my LAN subnet (192.168.0.0/24). By default, the Windows Firewall (in Windows 7 at least ...
Ars Technica

Windows Firewall controlled by group policy?

I've was installing some programs that required I open some ports in my firewall, but when I got there I saw that the firewall was turned off and it said, "For your security, some settings are ...