You probably have your router configured for UPnP, so Skype configured your
firewall for you.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
>
> I installed Skype. The tests showed it working.
>> Later I was looking at my Verizon router and
>> discovered two new port forwarding entries for
>> Skype. Now how was it able to do that? I
>> thought that any changes in the router required
>> user:password (unless remote administration is
>> turned on).
>>
>
> Me too, some for Skype and some for Miranda (a multi-protocol IM client for
> Windows, which I believe is open-source). Must be a back door, and if they
> can do it, anybody can. Can you say "back door", boys and girls? Good, I
> knew you could. I wonder if DD-WRT has the same back door. I hope not.
>
> The ones here are now deleted when noticed. Deletion takes a long time on
> "my" Actiontec MI-424WR.
>
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