Virus/router question

Question

If you have 2 computers protected by a hardware firewall (router), and 1 computer is infected with a virus or worm or trojan...;

can the virus/worm/trojan.... pass into the uninfected computer via the router?

Texruss · Answer

I'm not a network expert so others may chime in...but as I recall Nimda was one of the best at infecting networked PCs...when file sharing is enabled your workstations are vulnerable. Password protect any file sharing clients.

Texruss

msgale · Answer

The short answer is 'YES', in fact the long answer is also 'YES'.  Also I doubt if you really have a hardware firewall, most home routers use NAT which gives some protection, but it is far from a true firewall.

wingzero2309 · Answer

if you dont use file sharing on the network, you could just disable the sharing of files and/or printers through the LAN Properties

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