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October 25th, 2008, 06:03 PM
#13
 Originally Posted by HTRegz
You'd be surprised at how many people just plug their computer into their cable modem still, or directly into their DSL. When I was home last christmas, I discovered that was how my sisters internet was setup... I unplugged it and went straight out and got a linksys router to put in between.
One of my other quotes, which didn't make the article, was along the lines of hoping that a worm wouldn't spread to much because hopefully not to many people are using computers that are directly connected to the net. However I have seen it quite a bit.
I think one of the places that this will be a problem is college / university residences... many of them forbid NAT devices in front of your computer.
You'll find a majority of college students using OSX these days (at least in the more prestigious universities)
Its trendy dont ya know
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