• DoublePulsar infections picking up steam

    Posted on April 24, 2017 at 11:50 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    If you don’t have last month’s MS17-010 installed, better get off your duff.

    InfoWorld Woody on Windows

    Good point from Michael Horowitz:

    99.99% of the time ShieldsUP does not scan the computer it is run from, it scans the router the computer is connected to. Also, if the computer is using a VPN, it scans the VPN server rather than the router or the computer.

    What you wrote is true, but its not the whole story. That is, while a PC is connected to the router that was scanned, it is safe. But, if and when it connects to the Internet through another router, it may not be safe.

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