Guest Dan Posted November 7, 2007 Posted 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 > > http://www.grystmill.com > > > > "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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