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Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?


From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:25:30 -0600

On 1/12/2011 11:16 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () 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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