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@zokier "Today everything is so locked down"

I highly dought that. Most users use Windows and don't even have Anti-Virus/Firewall installed on there computers. Networking hardware is set to defualts. I would argue more computers and servers are unprotected because we have more computers and users online.

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Windows comes with an antivirus and a firewall preinstalled these days. The antivirus re-enables itself after a few hours if you disable it too.

It won't help you, here is one example; http://www.hackingarticles.in/set-bypass-outbound-rule-windo...

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