As a side note, the correct response for security is not using giant NAT routers. It's getting rid of Windows. For an otherwise reasonable comment, I have to s

As a side note, the correct response for security is not using giant NAT routers. It's getting rid of Windows. For an otherwise reasonable comment, I have to say: What a load of bull. The only machine I have ever gotten hacked was a Linux machine, since practically all attacks flowing on the net are Linux attacks. I run a mixed environment of Windows and Linux and have zero issues, despite my entire LAN being exposed to the internet via IPv6 (obviously firewalled though). Windows itself isn't insecure. It's a very nice and secure platform. Locked down, there are no problems at all. Users aer insecure. They are the problem. If Linux had near the same marketshare as Windows, they would require access to install whatever new and fancy thing which came around, would have to be locked up, and voila, Linux would be ridden with all the same problems Windows have now.