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Iusually leave it on, making sure to leave the Remote Desktop and Remote Administration exceptions turned on. And, of course, anything else I need to (usually the remote administration is good enough for SpiceWorks, I think).

On the network here we dont use windows firewall, neither do we use any other 3rd party firewalls. This is reasonably ok within this network, but for a laptop working remotely (over untrusted wifi / lan) this poses a significant threat.

To summarise, I here run a domain without a desktop firewall - knowing the networks team has secured the internet feed (we also use a proxy that does virus and exploit scanning) so take the risk of an internal exploit happening on an unpatched / pc without virus scan (not easy as AD automatically installs virus scan)

This goes back to the principal of layered security. If you only use a corporate firewall you are protecting the perimeter of your network but not the nodes on the inside. As Martin said, if someone breaches your firewall you have no protection.

If you are not going to use the Windows Firewall or another personal firewall on each node I would recommend segregating trusted and untrusted computers on your network with a DMZ. Corporate systems with managed AV, regular security patches, etc. would be trusted. If a visitor brings in a system or an employee brings in a home system and you do not have verification that it is updated, running the latest definitions of an AV and clean keep it on the untrusted segment.

In the environment I am currently in, a corporate firewall is protecting the network from external threats. Internally central AV and spyware scans run on a regular basis. Any external machines need to go through IT for testing before being permitted on the LAN. As Justin says, there are risks going this route, but they are managed risks. Monitoring systems are also in place to hopefully detect anything unusual, like an out-break, at which point you can take action.

My simple answer is - I would never, ever consider the possibility of not having both. They do different things and are both absolutely the minimum of security that you should ever consider on a networked device. And as the Windows firewall is free there is no excuse for not protecting your machines with it.

The issue has probably been since resolved, but I do not see the need to waste system resources on a software firewall when the network perimeter is already behind both a static and also an active firewall.

As far as asking what traffic is on your network, do you know the answer? Here is a sample of the alerts I get. They are actually very much more detailed, but that also makes that content classified for obvious reasons. Also I bet you did not know Spiceworks 4.0 does a traceroute to the spiceworks IP every 10 minutes.

It really comes down to what your comparison is. If you are comparing the Windows Firewall to no firewall it is better, if you are comparing it to other third party personal firewalls, it is inadequate.

I refuse to trust M$ for any network security beyond authentication to internal resources. They have already proven countless times to be incompetent and I will never use any M$ firewall or antivirus solution on my network.

Printers are not regularly patched for security updates. They are not closely scrutinized for security. They have historically been buggy as hell. They should be considered an untrusted potentially hostile device IMHO.

I know internally HP went to print serverless structure a few years ago, they sent a couple of documents out to partners regarding their choice and why. Personally after seeing the success our clients who have gone the pull printing route have had, why everyone with more than 5 printers and 20 users does not go this way. Superior control over printing, the ability to route big jobs to big printers or block jobs completely and the added security of print jobs not hanging out on the paper tray. Then add in the amount of saved paper and toner when actually unwanted jobs are just purged and not printed.

And with the move to more users being in the office on a limited basis then can print to the office and then collect when they are there.

Printers on their own vlan to free up IPs is craziness. Hopefully there is a better reason.

That said, direct printing vs print server. A server is easier to manage overall. Dealing with stuck queues or documents in one place.

With direct printing I have seen someone print something and mistakenly send 5000 pages. Now you have 30 employees that use a printer. Whose desk do you go to to resolve the issue?

It solves the whole issue changing printer IPs and redirecting print jobs when a printer goes down since Windows likes to hold on to those (ever see a print job from 2 years back come spewing out of a printer because you just put a printer on an old printer IP that was decomed?).

BTW if your security team ever decides they want the printer SNMP community changed or disabled a print server makes it easy to update rather than having printing stop working because someone needs to uncheck SNMP on the port settings.

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Hello everyone.

I am learning Rust and at present I am using Windows 10 platform but will be moving over to Linux OS or Mac OS soon. I use VS-Code on all platforms with Rust extensions.

My question is not about building/modifying the Rust compiler itself.

I am only interested in developing and debugging Rust applications and Rust libraries/crates.

On Windows it is documented that I must install Microsoft C/C++ tools and C++ redistributable.

I see this is several Gigabytes of exe/dll. Does Rust really need all of that of C/C++ baggage?

Is there some sort of minimum sub-set that Rust requires?

Perhaps I can just install MS link.exe, for example and dependent C/C++ libraries?

I was planning to try Windows 10 WSL but after WSL2 ships ib Windows 10, which is due this month, May 2020. The current WSL (1.0) has major performance issues that WSL2 promises to resolve.

I hope the above Rust install is fixed somehow. Rust installs OK on a Linux VM.

WSL 1 has been working very well for a long time now. The only issue is that there is no actual Linux Linux Underneath (Talk about Truth In Advertising) so I have had occasional annoyances when I want to do something that needs one, like generating core dumps or using perf tools.

do I need to install LLVM/CLANG or LLDB or anything else (libc etc) from the llvm.org or another web site since Rust uses LLVM ?

This question is for both Windows and for Linux (and Mac) OS.

thanks

To install Rust on Debian in WSL, in Debian servers, in Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi and in Ubuntu on the Nvidia Jetson Nano I have never done more than use rustup as directed by this page:Install Rust - Rust Programming Language

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