Computer Security

November 7, 2007

This thread apparently was finally cleared and I was notified today in my

Hotmail account. It is on page 7 of this newsgroup but I wanted to repost it

since it was so buried that few people would notice it. The hacking happened

apparently around the same time (in August/September 2007) my system was

hacked because I was foolish enough to install VPN without realizing it makes

my computer as weak as the weakest computer on the Albuquerque School Network

according to Chris Quirke, MVP.

"Dan" wrote:

> I read in the newspapers that DOD has firewalls that can hack your system if

> anyone tries to get in there. Do you know anything more about this and I

> read that recently unclassfied Pentagon emails were hacked from China and a 6

> million dollar data base was recently hacked. It certainly is getting bad

> out there.

>

> "Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

>

> > Except that I should have qualified that to "most 'home/office' routers", if

> > you know what I mean. I'm sure there are routers that do not use NAT....I

> > think... I think I'll go to bed now.

> >

> > --

> > Gary S. Terhune

> > MS-MVP Shell/User

> >

> > "Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> > news:ED8D87A4-0C32-4792-AC6E-97CB02FE3B1B@microsoft.com...

> > > Thank you so much for that great coverage of NAT and routers because that

> > > is

> > > exactly the answer I was looking for as well but could not put it into

> > > words

> > > like you just did Gary. I really appreciate the effort.

> >

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