Firewall

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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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