Re: UPnP

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:10:27 GMT

If you have questions on uPnP -- the following is a *good* place to ask.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.upnp 

-- 
Dave
"Stuart M" <dfdgh@fghf.cvgd> wrote in message news:386qdmF4qa5a3U1@individual.net...
| I have been thinking about UPnP on routers. Am I right in thinking that if
| you have this enabled, a program is able to open incoming ports on your
| router?
| If this is true, what is to stop a malicious program from opening its own
| ports using UPnP and opening your pc to access from anyone who tries to
| conect to said program?
|
|

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