Re: Windows messenger and UpnP security
- From: "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:33:24 -0500
Greetings Stefano,
No. The ports are opened and forwarded when the conversation starts and removed when it
ends. As well, they're UDP ports and if you had a trojan or virus on the system listening to
these ports, Messenger wouldn't chose those ones anyway as they'd be in use. So the answer
is no.
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"Stefano Ferrante" <sorryIhate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
> I was wondering...if I enable UpnP on my hardware firewall and set windows
> xp pro to use UpnP support in order to have an audio and video conversation
> with a trojan / viruses infected party, am I likely to be infected either?
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> Thanks for any help,
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> Stefano
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