100% of the people who keep Windows' firewall enabled are stupid.
Ummm, did you not notice that the instant that Win XP SP2 came out in 2004, and the windows firewall was turned on by default, all the infamous worms from 2000 to 2004 that would communicate with win xp's open ports and infect computers (a worm replicates via networks and open ports), suddenly stopped being a problem?
Now I agree with you that the lack of windows firewall outbound protection is an issue, and malware can turn off the firewall, but having it on by default for the masses is light years ahead of having no firewall.
And this issue should have been fixed and user should not even have known about. Epic should have test with windows firewall and fixed it before releasing it.
Does anyone do any compatibility testing anymore? I guess that's not the fashion anymore.
This comment was edited on Nov 20, 09:19.