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Windows Firewalls Lacking
Mark Burnett, 2005-03-15

For something as simple as a firewall for Windows servers, a good solution just doesn't exist.

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Outbound filtering is weak anwyay... 2005-03-15
Nicholas Weaver
Outbound filtering on the host is weak anyway: If you can escalate to root/System, the protection is lost, which is usually far too easy once a system is compromised.

Thus not having outbound filtering in the Windows firewall is not a significantl limitation in practice.
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