Re: I might bite bullet on SP2..but!

From: wojo (kwoyachSPAM53954_at_yahoo.SPAMcom)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:09:21 GMT

I aid I was gong to look into it further and I did.
It appears that myself and, presumably, S. Heenan didn't actually read the
firewall pop-up closely enough. I discovered this when I tried to run MS
Frontpage. The message poped up again and I read it a little closer. It is
asking permission for the program to accept INCOMING transmissions so it had
nothing at all to do with outgoing protection.
That's a bummer but at least I got to the bottom of it.
:-) 

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"CZ" <CZ@no99spam.com> wrote in message 
news:%23zh7GQfEEHA.688@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> It asked me for permission for Mcafee AV, for MSN Messenger, and for my 
>>> SMC
> Router firewall.
> OE was apparently automatically configured, it didn't ask permission for 
> it.
>
> wojo:
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> URL for the article that I quoted from earlier:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/winxpsp2.mspx
>
> From the article:
> Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
>
> February 20, 2004
> Starr Andersen, Technical Writer, Microsoft Corporation
> Vincent Abella, Technical Editor, Microsoft Corporation
> This preliminary document applies to the beta release of for Microsoft®
> Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 32-bit versions of Windows XP
> Professional and Windows XP Home Edition. It does not describe all of the
> changes that will be included in the final release of the service pack.
>
> Windows Firewall will automatically allow all outbound connections,
> regardless of the program and the user context
>
> For typical consumer and office computers, the computer is a client on the
> network.  Software on the computer connects out to a server (an outbound
> connection) and gets responses back from the server. Windows Firewall 
> allows
> all outbound connections, but applies rules to the types of communication
> that are allowed back into the computer. For more information about what
> network traffic Windows Firewall allows as part of Transmission Control
> Protocol (TCP) and User Data Protocol (UDP) outbound connections, see 
> Notes,
> below
>
>

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