Vista two-way firewall protection

[DelJo63]

To get two-way firewall protection in Windows Vista, do the following:

• Click on the Start button; in the search space, type "wf.msc" and press Enter.
• Click on the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security icon.
  This management interface displays the inbound and outbound rules.
• Click on Windows Firewalls Properties. You should now see a dialog box with several tabs.
• For each profile -- Domain, Private and Public -- change the setting to Block, and then click OK.

Even if you do this tweak, I recommend adding a more robust third-party firewall.
I suggest either Comodo Firewall Pro or ZoneAlarm, both of which are free and fare
very well in independent firewall testing. Also consider Sunbelt --
30 trail but after it expires, you lose nothing important and the system is very unintrusive

 

[SNGX1275]

Nice find. I recently came across that bit of information myself. I was going to bring it out during a firewall discussion thread but it seems you've beat me to it and this might be a better approach anyway.

 

[DelJo63]

you, me, or whoever -- the nice part is TS is trying to be proactive for the community