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  2. Windows Firewall - Wikipedia

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    Windows Firewall (officially called Microsoft Defender Firewall in Windows 10 version 2004 and later) is a firewall component of Microsoft Windows. It was first included in Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1. Before the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, it was known as the "Internet Connection Firewall."

  3. Security and safety features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Features include: Windows Vista Web Filter—implemented as a Winsock LSP filter to function across all Web browsers—which prohibits access to websites based on categories of content or specific addresses (with an option to block all file downloads); Time Limits, which prevents standard users from logging in during a date or time specified by ...

  4. Comparison of privilege authorization features - Wikipedia

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    Included with Windows Vista and later Microsoft Windows operating systems, UAC prompts the user for authorization when an application tries to perform an administrator task. [1] Runas: A command-line tool and context-menu verb introduced with Windows 2000 that allows running a program, control panel applet, or a MMC snap-in as a different user. [2]

  5. List of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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    Windows 2.03 — December 9, 1987: 2.03 — — Windows 2.1 — May 27, 1988: 2.10 — — Windows 2.11 — March 13, 1989: 2.11 — — Windows 3.0 — May 22, 1990: 3.00 Windows 3.00a; Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions — Windows 3.1: Janus April 6, 1992 3.10 Windows 3.1; 103 Sparta [a] October 31, 1992 Windows for Workgroups 3.1; 102 ...

  6. Comparison of firewalls - Wikipedia

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    Barracuda Firewall Proprietary: Included Firewall Next Generation appliance Windows-based appliance embedded firewall distribution Cyberoam: Proprietary: Included Firewall Sophos appliance Windows-based appliance embedded firewall distribution D-Link: Proprietary: Included Firewall DFL Windows-based appliance embedded firewall distribution ...

  7. Windows Vista networking technologies - Wikipedia

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    It has a number of changes to improve performance and add additional capabilities. Windows Vista and later operating systems use SMB 2.0 when communicating with other machines running Windows Vista or later. SMB 1.0 continues in use for connections to any previous version of Windows, or to Samba. Samba 3.6 also includes support for SMB 2.0. [21]

  8. Security and Maintenance - Wikipedia

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    Windows Security Center in Windows Vista, reporting antivirus protection missing Windows Security Center in Windows XP Service Pack 2 reporting no antivirus product is installed. Security and Maintenance (formerly known as Action Center , and Security Center in earlier versions) is a component of the Windows NT family of operating systems that ...

  9. Mandatory Integrity Control - Wikipedia

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    Mandatory Integrity Control is defined using a new access control entry (ACE) type to represent the object's IL in its security descriptor.In Windows, Access Control Lists (ACLs) are used to grant access rights (read, write, and execute permissions) and privileges to users or groups.