Reply to post: Re: Is anyone using UPnP anyway?

Here are another 45,000 reasons to patch Windows systems against old NSA exploits

JohnFen

Re: Is anyone using UPnP anyway?

How so? If a user screws up port forwarding in a way that introduces a security problem, the damage is still limited to the ports in question. Enabling uPnP risks allowing attackers to reconfigure things to allow much greater damage.

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