MS plugs weak XP firewall

MS plugs weak XP firewall
John Leyden, The Register 2004-12-17

Microsoft this week quietly fixed a security weakness in the configuration of the built-in firewall component of Windows XP.

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This is aggregious! 2004-12-17
Reader (2 replies)

You would think that if they are going to include a personal firewall it had better work as intended. It's funny how all these "easy to use" features we demand come back to bite us. With ease of use comes programmatical complexity....

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This is aggregious! 2004-12-18
Anonymous

In my opinion egregious is really not an appropriate way to describe the situation. I think most security experts would agree that security is a constantly evolving process filled with many imperfections along the way. I would like for "Reader" to name any one vendor that has gotten easy-to-use se...

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This is aggregious! 2004-12-18
Anonymous (2 replies)

get real. if you put this in perspective, MS servers a huge number of users- most of which poses little to no computing experience. They managed to succesfully roll out a firewall app to these users with little disruption. The aggregious flaw you reference effects a very small number of users and is...

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This is !aggregious 2004-12-21
Anonymous

When rolling out apps internally we consider errors for less than 5% of our 6200 users a great success. M$ stands out because 5% of their user mass is a staggering number of people. And because of their aggressive marketing and monopolizing politics, but that's another matter entirely... :-)...

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Re: This is aggregious! 2006-07-26
pete

how about getting it right the first time...

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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-18
Anonymous (2 replies)

this is where OSS shines.

if there was a hole (and in OSS apps they're very infrequent) there would have been a patch ready the day the hole was discovered....

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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-21
Anonymous

... ok I am back up off my chair after falling off with laughter. before you make such ridiculous statements about OSS please do a little research. Go and look at the star of the moment "firefox" since release it has 4 holes, some since august, how many are patched NONE....

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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-21
Anonymous

Yes, but 99% of people would have been completely oblivious to both the hole and the solution because open-source geniuses don't 'do' packages (the code, the pre-compiled binaries for popular systems and package managers, the DOCUMENTATION (yeah, I see the readme...) - so lets not pretend we're comp...

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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-18
Anonymous

"Microsoft first informed users of this back in September but it has taken five months for it to release a fix."

Terrible! 5 months to fix? that must have

been some issue were there software engineers on a round the world cruise and just get

back or were they too busy plugging the

holes in...

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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

Announced only 2 days after monthly patches were made available? By what logic was this not deemed worthy of inclusion into the normal patch update cycle? As a big corporate customer, we didn't get the usual advance notification but found it on the web; more support for the contention that MS still ...

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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-21
Henery

simple question. . . if we (programmers) had 11 or more shots at making a secure operating system and never once got it right would we still have a job or product to sell?

if MS can't make a secure os then why would anyone even think about using windows firewall???? and what good is a firewall that...

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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-21
Anonymous

SP2's firewall beats the *bleep* out of what they offered before...being nothing. While it is a messy solution the vast majority of users will have no clue it's there and it will provide some basic protection.

For those of us who actually know better, we can turn to IPTables or a hardware soluti...

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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-21
Jagdwulfe

What is truly sad is that Microsoft charges over $200 US for an operating system for home users. Forces them to purchase an OS for each PC in the house after all that is what the CD keys do. They have the nerve to do this yet constantly release products that are heavily flawed. It is a shame there i...

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it has taken five months 2004-12-22
Anonymous

"Microsoft first informed users of this back in September but it has taken five months"

Is this some kind of new math?

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