On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 08:44:02AM +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
Dne 7.12.2010 00:21, Jesse Keating napsal(a):
> Actually bittorrents that have upnp work. Routers I've seen come
> pre-configured to allow upnp, so an app on a computer, or a game
> console, sends out a upnp request to open up/forward a port and the
> router complies.
And I really hope this will never work on any computer I admin ... there
is apparently now small cottage industry of Windows viruses switching
off firewall via UPNP.
Not to mention that UPnP is a scary hack:
http://www.upnp-hacks.org/upnp.html
Rich.
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