Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

Wed Jan 12 21:24:57 UTC 2011

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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:18 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:21:24 PST, Paul Ferguson said:
>
>> Try this at home, with/without NAT:
>>
>> 1. Buy a new PC with Windows installed
>> 2. Install all security patches needed since the OS was installed
>>
>> Without NAT, you're unpatched PC will get infected in less than 1
>> minute.
>
> What release of Windows?
>

Okay, okay -- you got me on that one. :-)

It used to be a much bigger problem when XP was shipping on PCs, but of
course that has changed.

I suppose there's a sliding-window principle (no pun intended) with regards
to the number of security vulnerabilities that are remotely exploitable and
the amount of time since the OS version was introduced, but you get my
point. :-)

- - ferg

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