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
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This is aggregious! 2004-12-18
Anonymous

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

This is !aggregious 2004-12-21
Anonymous

Re: This is aggregious! 2006-07-26
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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-18
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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 comparing like for like here... Microsoft, for all we hate them, are selling systems that normal people can use, and until there are realistic contenders (linux = NO, nearly there but not yet, OSX = fantastic, if you're a millionaire)then your bullet-proof open-source operatng systems dont mean shit to this 99%...

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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-18
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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-19
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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-21
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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-21
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MS plugs weak XP firewall 2004-12-21
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it has taken five months 2004-12-22
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