Aerotop Dave Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Although I build my own PCs I'm not a techie so excuse this question which is presented in Pano-Man-On-The-Street-O-Vision: I was under the impression that routers didn't 'act' or 'appear' as PCs and that's why they are considered a good form of defence. In other words, if someone is looking at your router it doesn't 'look' like a PC so they wouldn't bother to hack or probe any further, whereas a PC does actually look like a PC on the interweb and that's why they look more juicy to hack. I thought a router just looked like part of the interweb and you'd never know there was anything connected to it worth hacking. Is this crap? Also, it's been round for years, but you can't beat a good probe of your ports with 'Shields Up' A quick & basic check of your PC's vulnerability. https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerotop Dave Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Excellent, I've baffled the boffins with that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffvalenti Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 you can't beat a good probe of your ports You speak for yourself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Anyone used Lavasoft's Personal Firewall?? I downloaded it last night and it trapped a whole host of stuff that was getting past my DG814. Having said that the DG814 isn't "professionally" setup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Although I build my own PCs I'm not a techie so excuse this question which is presented in Pano-Man-On-The-Street-O-Vision: I was under the impression that routers didn't 'act' or 'appear' as PCs and that's why they are considered a good form of defence. In other words, if someone is looking at your router it doesn't 'look' like a PC so they wouldn't bother to hack or probe any further, whereas a PC does actually look like a PC on the interweb and that's why they look more juicy to hack. I thought a router just looked like part of the interweb and you'd never know there was anything connected to it worth hacking. Is this crap? Also, it's been round for years, but you can't beat a good probe of your ports with 'Shields Up' A quick & basic check of your PC's vulnerability. https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 Short answer is: Windows is piss-easy to hack, so why bother with harder stuff? The longer answer is that by routers running inflexible operating systems means that there is less to be taken advantage of - you can't add software, services, trojans, zombies etc. Still doesn't mean people won't hack them though, because they can be used to hop onto something else, perhaps appearing as a trusted host on the internal network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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