Hi Steve, I hope you haven't caused a storm with aggressive mails here^^ This maillinglist is more about now detected holes in soft- and hardware...
First, you certainly mean not a normal router (which is on most cases 100% transparent in both directions), but a NAT-router. What the NAT blocks (in most cases) are incomings connections - But expecially since XP SP2 this is a very seldom used way to attack computers. Nowadays, most bad software use holes in apps - browser, office, flash and so on which use outgoing connections - which are NOT blocked by a NAT-router. So, yes, a bot connectiong to a botnet could be installed if Firefox or a plugin like Flash, Java, Quicktime and so on has a hole and you browse on a "bad" site. Btw, please read about NAT, routing, current bad software etc in the internet - this will help you understanding the concerns. Sincerly, Michael _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
