RE: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

And yet blaster type worms are less common now, and I still get the occasional reinfection reported where a computer shop installs XP pre-patch with a public IP. A simple stateful firewall or NAT router would stop that and allow them to finish patching the OS. There is always a new attack vector.

Jack

I'd argue that the above has everything to do with firewalling, and nothing to do with NAT. Slightly OT: It boggles the mind a bit when I find desktop shops -not- using imaging. I would think most people would prefer not to stare at OS install screens - and when you can blast out a fully patched XP image easily in sub-10 minutes, the ROI is staggering. Nathan