Yeah, thats what I’m on about. I’m going to be honest, the windows firewall popups nowadays only serve to annoy me when I’m running a game, or testing a web app.
Because if so, this will almost certainly force connections from the internet to the example computer to be initiated by the computer. As they would still be behind the router.
Plugging in ethernet can absolutely be a risk.
If you tell your client to plug in ethernet before you have confirmed they’re running windows XP, you just ruined their PC.
There’s a reason experts hail the air gap as one of the best lines of defense against intrusion.
I doubt the people they’re referring to are running windows xp.
Also, iirc the windows xp thing only works without a router.
Back in the XP days, PCs were often jacked directly into the internet. Remember having to add a 3rd party firewall like Zone Alarm? :)
I was installing cable internet at the time, my customers out there straight raw dogging the internet.
Yeah, thats what I’m on about. I’m going to be honest, the windows firewall popups nowadays only serve to annoy me when I’m running a game, or testing a web app.
They weren’t behind NAT?
Because if so, this will almost certainly force connections from the internet to the example computer to be initiated by the computer. As they would still be behind the router.
LOL, no one had routers back then. Straight jacked in.