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Is port Forwarding Dangerous?
stuntman021:
if you forward the wrong port, your computer explodes.
seriously though, as long as you're forwarding the correct ports nothing bad will happen
Doomonkey:
--- Quote from: stuntman021 on September 04, 2011, 07:25:08 PM ---if you forward the wrong port, your computer explodes.
seriously though, as long as you're forwarding the correct ports nothing bad will happen
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Even if you forward the wrong ports, nothing should happen.
DontCare4Free:
--- Quote from: Doomonkey on September 04, 2011, 07:42:41 PM ---Even if you forward the wrong ports, nothing should happen.
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Actually, some ports would be dangerous to forward, like the NetBIOS and SAMBA ones.
CanadianPenguin:
--- Quote from: DontCare4Free on September 04, 2011, 07:45:37 PM ---Actually, some ports would be dangerous to forward, like the NetBIOS and SAMBA ones.
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Only if you're running those, and you're handicapped enough to not secure your samba install.
DontCare4Free:
--- Quote from: CanadianPenguin on September 04, 2011, 09:09:04 PM ---Only if you're running those, and you're handicapped enough to not secure your samba install.
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Windows runs both of those by default (well, it's own smb implementation) is you select that it's not a public network.