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| Feel free to disagree but this goes out to all those who continually gripe on Vista's built in firewall. After some thinking I've finally come the conclusion as to why I think Microsoft setup the firewall the way they did.
Considering how only outbound connections are blocked, it makes sense. Microsoft does not want to block inbound connections because this could cause many problems with internal networking with other devices such as PC's, Printers, Media Center extenders etc... They are assuming that your router/firewall will block any unsolicited inbound connections in the first place, therefore the only thing you need to worry about inside the network are outbound connections originating from client computers.
These outbound connections could orignate as Viri/Trojans in which a user downloads from an email attachment or website. Which in theory Vista would block. In the end, I believe as long as you have a router/firewall with descent ACL's Vista's firewall is sufficient.
Now if you are not behind a router/firewall and your home pc is hooked directly up to your modem you should look into an after market firewall with inbound/outbound rules already established. I believe key reason why Microsoft did not want to fully load their firewall could be just that, they don't want to compete with after market firewall companies as to avoid another anti-trust suit because they bundle so many applications into windows. Perhaps it goes back to the whole Netscape - Internet Explorer fiasco which happened years ago.
AMD64 X2 5200+ 2.60GHz | 3GB DDR 667 | RAID 0 SATA3.0 WD Caviars 320GB total | Foxconn MCP61VM2MA-RS2H Geforce 6100 nforce400 chipset | Vista Ultimate x86
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