windows firewall almost all ports closed but not stealt

Today I've installed Windows Vista beta 2; Windows Firewall is on by default and this is ok, but Almost all the ports are *closed* but *not stealthed* and this is not so safe. Please make all ports stealthed!

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:22:02 -0700, BillD wrote:

Today I've installed Windows Vista beta 2; Windows Firewall is on by default and this is ok, but Almost all the ports are *closed* but *not stealthed* and this is not so safe.

Why?

B. Nice wrote:

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:22:02 -0700, BillD BillD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Today I've installed Windows Vista beta 2; Windows Firewall is on by default and this is ok, but Almost all the ports are *closed* but *not stealthed* and this is not so safe.
Why?

Someone has been listening to Gibson again... Sigh...
Tony

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:42:13 +0100, Tony Hoyle wrote:

B. Nice wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:22:02 -0700, BillD BillD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Today I've installed Windows Vista beta 2; Windows Firewall is on by default and this is ok, but Almost all the ports are *closed* but *not stealthed* and this is not so safe.
Why?
Someone has been listening to Gibson again... Sigh...
Tony

Yes, I'm afraid You're right.

Why would you want to a Vista machine on the network without a good "firewall" in front of it like a router?
I would never put any machine with just a firewall on it.

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:22:02 -0700, BillD wrote:

Today I've installed Windows Vista beta 2; Windows Firewall is on by default and this is ok, but Almost all the ports are *closed* but *not stealthed* and this is not so safe. Please make all ports stealthed!