![]() ![]() ![]() If you understand security and think a specific setup makes your computer more secure, by all means - go for it. I would be frustrated and think that Microsoft is a bogus company etc etc. But what if I'm a non-technical person that purchased a Windows machine for the sole purpose of using Xbox, Twitter and MSN? If Windows blocked them by default, I wouldn't know what to do. But to others, it might just be an inconvenience.įor example: You don't want Xbox, Twitter or MSN. ![]() You’ll see a note about this command being deprecated, but the new command doesn’t show us the information we want. This is a display of blocked and open ports as per the configuration of your Windows Firewall. With the Command Prompt open, type: netsh firewall show state. This is also the reason you have access to the firewall settings and people that understand what's going on can make a choice. Right-click on CMD and Run as Administrator. While it is advisable to keep only the necessary ports open or closed, the default Windows setup is definitely not optimum, but at least decent. Now, let me ask you if you believe that closing most ports through your firewall makes you secure? Again, you cannot have an answer to that as there are way too many factors involved. While your assumption that having more open ports increases security risk is correct, it still depends on a lot of other factors. ![]()
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