Vista really seems more secure

I just forced to touched some of the Vista security setting because Zone Alarm couldn't be installed on the Vista, and Vista indeed comes with a firewall that allows blocking outbound traffic.

The Vista firewall seems pretty complicate to set up, so if I couldn't get what I need, I may soon give Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall Version 4.3.268 a try.

Vista makes me realized that a lot of my so called portable application is actually not as portable as I though. Quite some of them still require administration right to modify registry or retrieve system information to generate Hardware ID. For instance, Painter XI require administrator access (by setting the shortcut to run the app with Admin previlege) in order to generate the hardware ID to complete the activation process. Similarly FireWork MX 2oo4 requires something similar. So I guess I need to turn the admin access checkbox on for quite a lot legacy application.

On the bright side, though, that means intruder application will have more hardtime to get automatically executed on my machine.