Why Didn't Ms Turn On The Firewall Themself

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/34448.html

since august, ms was running off linux servers to prevent against worm attacks... they better get that SP2 going that automatically turns on their firewall.

#87964

Trés drole.

A couple of points, though:

Microsoft.com runs on Windows Server 2003, which SP2 doesn't apply to - Server 2003 has a completely different firewall to XP SP1, which is on by default..

There's a difference between running a firewall and being able to "fend off a disheartening number of DDoS attacks, worms and the like". A firewall monitors traffic in and out of your network, but if you're victim to a DDoS attack, the whole point is that the traffic being generated is meant to hit your firewall as much as possible. Note the "Linux server army" comment - the whole point is that Microsoft got a veritable army of Linux boxen to do the job, most likely because of the aforementioned DDoS attacks.

#87986

don't know why, this double posted

#87996

that comment was meant to be a joke... hahaha (geez, tough crowd)... i do have just barely enough common sense to know that they're not protecting their servers with their little xp firewalls...

but, to get back to the firewall, i just read this is one of the things they will be changing on sp2, was that it will turn on the fw by default. just read this at neowin:

"Sources familiar with the Service Pack 2 beta said the update offers Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) turned on by default,"

and by the way, it should be très, not trés

#87999