It may have been a long time coming, but Microsoft’s newest Service Pack 2 for Windows XP — soon to be released for beta testing — represents several significant changes to the software. Many of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

These days, using a PC without a firewall installed makes about as much sense as leaving the house without wearing any pants. We’re not talking about the firewall built into your broadband router here ...

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 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 ...

Last week we reported a problem streaming QuickTime content from Mac OS X to Windows XP clients. In some cases, the Windows XP users are able to negotiate to the streaming server, the web client ...

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, ...

If you're ignoring or have disabled Windows Firewall, you might be missing out on some good, basic protections that are easy to set up and maintain. Windows Firewall has been enabled by default since ...