Comment Re:Common sense, for the love of Pete... (Score 1) 1995
Your broadband router is, by definition, a rudamentary firewall. It's performing NAT (network address translation) for your private network (your wireless client) and giving you a private IP address. That in itself will protect you from from the type of virus/trojan we're talking about. As an exercise, try setting the router to put one of your machiens on the DMZ (demilitarized zone) and run a fresh unpatched copy of Windows 98SE or later. See what happens.
Personal anecdote: In Sept. 2003 I got Earthlink DSL and connected my primary 98SE machine (had some patches, but not recent) directly to the modem to do the initial account configuration, knowing that if I had any problems the Earthlink support would not assist me if a router is in the picture. Within 3 hours I had 4 different viruses in the system.
Personal anecdote: In Sept. 2003 I got Earthlink DSL and connected my primary 98SE machine (had some patches, but not recent) directly to the modem to do the initial account configuration, knowing that if I had any problems the Earthlink support would not assist me if a router is in the picture. Within 3 hours I had 4 different viruses in the system.
