a Universal Plug-N-Play question

[gballard]

I know that UPNP is a dangerous service to have running on a computer...but...if you have it running on a computer that is sitting behind a router...is it still dangerous?

 

[NetRyder]

If you're talking about the SSDP Discovery Service (the one that enables your computer to discover UPnP devices on the network), I'm quite sure it shouldn't be much of a security threat. In fact, if you have a UPnP router, you should enable the service if you plan to use video-conferencing software or multiplayer games.

 

[gballard]

hmmm....that dude who runs the Shields UP! website said UPNP is a major no no...because of some exploit that was found or something....

 

[Nedreplan]

I found this about UPnP... about the safety risk with UPnP...


Check this site.... abit futher down, about UPnP

 

[gballard]

cool...

 

[jonifen]

Enyo, you mention that the uPnP service could be useful to the user... in what way would it be useful exactly? I've always disabled it on the machines I've installed as I thought it was only needed for certain devices that required it?

 

[jonifen]

It doesnt really look as if I would benefit from it tbh, so I'll leave it off on the pcs I got to save resources I think

Thx for the little explanation Enyo btw