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000000173 037__ $$aLERSSE-REPORT-2009-031
000000173 041__ $$aeng
000000173 100__ $$aArun Chebium
000000173 100__ $$aPooya Jaferian
000000173 100__ $$aNima Kaviani
000000173 100__ $$aFahimeh Raja 
000000173 245__ $$aA Usability Analysis of Microsoft Windows Vista’s Firewall 
000000173 260__ $$c2009-02-27
000000173 520__ $$aThe usability of personal firewalls has not received a significant amount of attention in the literature. However, it is essential that these firewalls - which are used by the lay end-user to protect his/her computer from malicious programs on the internet - be usable as well as secure, and that one concept lead to the other seamlessly. Here, we report on the results of a usability analysis of Windows Vista's firewall. Our heuristic evaluation of the firewall (based on standard usability guidelines and carefully extracted benchmarks) has thrown up many areas of improvement. In this term project, we propose a medium-fidelity prototype to address some of these issues, perform lab experiments and user studies involving this prototype, and based on the results of our rigorous field work, and suggest final modifications leading to a high-fidelity prototype.
000000173 6531_ $$ausability
000000173 6531_ $$afirewall
000000173 6531_ $$asecurity
000000173 6531_ $$aissnet
000000173 8560_ $$fpranabk@ece.ubc.ca
000000173 8564_ $$uhttp://lersse-dl.ece.ubc.ca/record/173/files/173.pdf$$yTransfer from CDS 0.99.7
000000173 909C4 $$pArun Chebium, Pooya Jaferian, Nima Kaviani, Fahimeh Raja, "A Usability Analysis of Microsoft Windows Vista’s Firewall", term project report, CPSC 544, University of British Columbia, Canada, Spring 2007.  
000000173 980__ $$aREPORT