Granted, Eric turned off the firewall on Windows XP before he started the experiment, but we have a sneaking suspicion that a security suite that hasn’t been updated for at least a decade doesn’t have much chance against modern tactics.
But yeah, would’ve been more interesting with the fw running.
Correct me if I am wrong, isn’t a simple firewall that blocks incoming and outgoing connection is basically impenetrable? Because when something tries to connect, then the connection is dropped immediately unless on a certain port. If even the connection attempt were ignored, how would an exploit achieve some form of connection? Unless we are talking about application level firewall or deep packet inspection
But yeah, would’ve been more interesting with the fw running.
Correct me if I am wrong, isn’t a simple firewall that blocks incoming and outgoing connection is basically impenetrable? Because when something tries to connect, then the connection is dropped immediately unless on a certain port. If even the connection attempt were ignored, how would an exploit achieve some form of connection? Unless we are talking about application level firewall or deep packet inspection
What “modern tactics” actually work on XP?