Nope - centralised network firewalls never became popular for consumer users. Microsoft started shipping a default-on host firewall in XP SP2, those let the use

Nope - centralised network firewalls never became popular for consumer users. Microsoft started shipping a default-on host firewall in XP SP2, those let the user get prompted on what apps to allow. Lately corporations have been moving to host firewalls too since the "crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside" intranet mindset is increasingly incompatible with the modern world.