Any risk of shutting of windows firewall on Windows 2008 R2?

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Posted by RepkoNet, 12-30-2014, 03:22 PM
Any risk of shutting of windows firewall on Windows 2008 R2? I typically shut it off but is their any risk associated with doing so? It blocks all the ports so it gets very annoying to deal with.
Posted by Host_MAX, 12-30-2014, 04:29 PM
Why not leave it running and simply open required ports? http://dbatricksworld.com/how-to-ope...erver-2008-r2/
Posted by RepkoNet, 12-30-2014, 05:21 PM
Of course I know about opening ports. But opening so many ports because multiple applications need them open is kind of a pain.
Posted by astutiumRob, 12-30-2014, 10:56 PM
Getting exploited is more of a pain ! Put a HW firewall in front of it _before_ considering turning windoze firewall off.
Posted by kpmedia, 12-30-2014, 11:52 PM
Lowering the firewall would be insane.
Posted by net, 12-30-2014, 11:56 PM
This is some of the risks.