on 8/14/2003 9:29 AM Sean Donelan wrote:
> John Markoff reports in the New York Times that Microsoft plans to change > how it ships Windows XP due to the worm. In the future Microsoft will > ship both business and consumer verisons of Windows XP with the included > firewall enabled by default. Wouldn't it make more sense to ship with all of the services disabled? I mean, if the role of the firewall is to block packets to weak services, wouldn't it be simpler to just disable the damn services since they aren't going to be usable anyway? -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/