We are in the process of designing a strategy for turning on the Windows Desktop Firewall on our admin workstations. At this point we're blocking everything but ICMP, RDP and Dameware, however some of ...

I know this is somewhat of a Microsoft question, but I thought that the security mindset on this forum might have an idea of how to do the following: can the Windows XP SP2 firewall be configured so ...

Hackers have published code that could let an attacker disable Windows Firewall on certain Windows XP machines. The code, which was posted on the Internet early Sunday morning, could be used to ...

Microsoft Corp. has quietly released an update to Windows XP to fix a potentially serious configuration problem in the firewall that ships as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Users who ...

Microsoft has quietly released an update to Windows XP to fix a potentially serious configuration problem in the firewall that ships as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2. Users who installed SP2 on ...

The firewall is one of the most important security features in a computer environment. In the classic sense, a firewall is set up on an appliance, such as a computer that fulfills just a single, ...