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Fixing Windows Vista's partition magic windows server Firewall
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Feb 2007 20:29 UTC, submitted by Jennifer Logan
"What is it with the Windows Vista Firewall and its refusal to go away?
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All our PCs are secured behind two firewalls: a hardware firewall and Microsoft ISA Server. The only traffic that gets in is the traffic that we want to get in. Now we can appreciate having the firewall on by default; but after turning it off over 20 times, it's getting to be too much."
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RE[4]: Not Necessary!?
by bryhhh (1.74) on Mon 19th Feb 2007 13:34 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Not Necessary!?"
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A Trojan masked by a rootkit that can't disable/bypass your software firewall? sql server database creation automation I think not.
Quite right, hence the reason why I said "a firewall might just save the day.", (Emphasis added).
So your argument is that a software firewall can prevent unauthorised outgoing connections? [/i]
No, my arguement is that whilst a firewall should not be used as the basis of a security implementation, it does compliment properly securing or disabling services. Firewalls (hardware and software) are not infallable, but they should not be overlooked.
There is a huge industry built around selling users 'security' software by marketing through fear and aren't solving the problem in the right place.
Very true, and I'm aware of far too many people that buy into this false sense of security.
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i can smell ibm voice server rhel it. no apples.
by fryke (1.8) directplay ipx server on Thu 20th Jul free exchange server training video 2006 18:27 UTC
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Don't forget that time server software those processors mentioned are still based on that old Netburst technology, which basically means that Apple won't use them. "real" quad core processors that also have a sane power consumption will follow later in 2007 according to intel.
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RE: i can smell it. no apples.
by Wes Felter (2.92) on Thu 20th Jul 2006 18:42 in reply to "i can smell it. no apples."
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No, Kentsfield is based on Conroe (Core 2 Duo) and Clovertown
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is based on Woodcrest (Xeon 5100). NetBurst is dead.
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RE: i can smell it. no apples.
by kaiwai (3.32) on Thu 20th Jul 2006 18:44 in reply to "i can smell it. no apples."
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Don't forget that those processors microsoft access ole server active x mentioned are still based on that old Netburst technology, which basically means that Apple won't use them. "real" quad core processors that also have a sane power consumption will follow later in 2007 according to intel.
You might actually wish to read the artile before making a fool of yourself; these quad processors are using the new core architecture, not the netburst; the netburst was formally killed off once the core 2 was shipped - hence the reason why the netburst based processors were being sold off in a 'fire sale' for the last few months.
As for add messages to cod4 server Apple, it'll nt server error be interesting to see whether or not Apple uses them in iMac or whether they decide to keep it specially for the PowerMac replacement or the Xserver.
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RE: i can smell it. no apples.
by Mark Williamson (4.12) on Thu 20th Jul sql server localhost 2006 18:55 in reply to "i can smell it. no apples."
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Wiki suggests that Clovertown is actually two woodcrest cores, server no longer accessible after sp2 so actually it's not netburst but Core-based...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_Microarchitecture
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Mark
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