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  3. July 2004

Re: Need firewall protection,

Jim Franz wrote: 
port 445 to infect and I would "guess" from the size of the
infection it is not blocked by default - anyone know?
Do remember that a corporate firewall and your
average dsl/broadband router setups are very different.

Based on the size of the infection, I would surmise that either a) The virus doesn't propagate exclusively via the direct TCP connections or b) Most people aren't behind routers.

As I have stated before ... a NATing router does not allow external traffic in. It's not a mater of blocking ports ... the ports are not open to be blocked.

Want to check it out ... visit http://www.dslreports.com/scan and run a port scan when you are behind a router.

david

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