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Re: off-topic - masquerading and security
- To: Michel Lewinger <mikil(at-nospam)bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: off-topic - masquerading and security
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 01:35:40 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Israeli Linux mailing list <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0111240112230.22059-100000@sansana.bgu.ac.il>
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On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Michel Lewinger wrote:
> If I have a masqueraded net, would a virus such as NIMDA be able to scan
> and infect other computers on the same internal net (192.168.X.X type) ?
Yes.
When it is acting as a client (scanning the internet for an http server)
it can scan either the computers in the local network or computers in
"legal" addresses on the internet, naturally. It can do whatever any http
client in your network can do.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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