I need no protection!!!

[gronbek]

gronbeck do you use a router?

if so, i have the same setup as you, but just incase i've run spybot immunize & spywareblaster

firefox & adblock plus & not visiting crap, and never using outlook helps a lot


-edit, marc2003, ditto

No router. But I am not sure if my ISP has one built in at the station.

BR Anders

 

[Burnsy2023]

No router. But I am not sure if my ISP has one built in at the station.

BR Anders

You won't have the protection of NAT then

Your ISP will have routers but they won't have NAT

Burnsy

 

[Una]

come on then, do explain. if it's "laughable", then you obviously know better than i do. please enlighten me.

Ok, the most common exploitation vectors are.. from viewing a malicious webpage (e.g the flash vulnerability the last couple of days) , remote code execution through a network socket. Not everything needs user interaction to spread.

I seem to remember a piece of, i think javascript or something possibly, and it logs into your router using the default password etc etc (which is normally just "admin" or password", and then it changes your router's settings to brick it. Our BTVoyager router has the 192.168.0.1 log in page,but it comes with a random password which is unique to each box.

XSRF can do that kinda thing, however, its pretty uncommon in the wild due to being device/firmware specific.