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Windows OneCare (as well as Vista) have two-way firewalls, unlike XP’s one-way firewall.

The OneCare team found out that a bunch of people had been turning off their firewall and decided to find out why:

Based on our investigation, there are four primary reasons people are turning off their firewall.

    1. Do not think a software firewall is necessary
    2. Do not like the (sometimes incessant) pop-up dialogs
    3. An application failed to install with firewall turned on
    4. An application fails to work with firewall turned on

More here.


Alex Eckelberry