>> If you use a broadband router which most of us will then the MS firewall
>> is probably fine. All routers will offer some basic protection simply from offering Network Address
>> Translation - yes you can punch holes through this by forwarding particular ports.
>>
Microsoft themselves trample straight through their own firewall so I do not trust it to block anyone else.
I found this out when I was rebuilding my machine. I set the Vista firewall to block all traffic, the updates still came thick and fast. I had to unplug the Ethernet cable until I'd done all the admin stuff including setting update to alert only.
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