Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?
Jack Bates
jbates at brightok.net
Wed Jan 12 17:25:30 UTC 2011
On 1/12/2011 11:16 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>
> 140 million compromised PC's, most of them behind a NAT, can't be wrong. :)
And yet blaster type worms are less common now, and I still get the
occasional reinfection reported where a computer shop installs XP
pre-patch with a public IP. A simple stateful firewall or NAT router
would stop that and allow them to finish patching the OS. There is
always a new attack vector.
Jack
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