Theoretical Vpn/Default gateway opinion

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From: Bob Graham (Someone_at_notMicrosoft.com)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:09:19 GMT

I understand the security risks of disabling "Use Default Gateway On The
Remote Network" so as to be able to VPN and Browse/Pop at the same time.

But for my own purposes, when my home machine is behind a
Netopia/Nat/Firewall and using a private IP address, I'm thinking that I'm
not posing that much of a security risk by un-checking the udg check box for
my own use. I don't run anti-virus, but in ten years of email/surfing I've
only ever had two viruses, both due to carelessness I no longer allow. (A
floppy virus, New York Blue, while helping to clean a friends infected
machine, and MsBlast because I ignored Microsoft's warning a day too long
while running with a public IP.)

I certainly wouldn't clue any of my users into the possibility of disabling
the udg checkbox, and they don't complain.

I really don't want to drag internet through the SBS at my clients location
to my home computer, as they only have a 768k fractional T1, while I have
5mbit DSL at home.

Bob