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leapinlew:

--- Quote from: scofthe7seas on July 06, 2011, 03:30:24 pm ---I've heard another tech say this, but I've never seen any such thing. Any major ISP should have a firewall to prevent this from happening solely by connecting to their service. If they didn't, they'd be liable for a phat lawsuit.

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Its a slippery slope for an ISP to decide what can access the network and what can't. I'd say if they started blocking any traffic they would be more liable for a lawsuit than by blocking none. Right now, they provide a fully open pipe to the internet. You've never heard of Conficker or Nimda?
BadMouth:
I worry more about getting viruses from the hacks and cracks that I have to download from shady sources every time I buy a new PC game to put on my cab.
(of course, they can't be sending personal information if they aren't connected to anything)

If it were connected, it's not like I'd be browsing with it or have automatic updates turned on.


--- Quote from: scofthe7seas on July 06, 2011, 02:42:40 pm ---I don't really know why a cabinet would need to be on the internet though?

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I was considering re-enabling all the networking stuff to download the new street fighter game from capcom so I wouldn't have to bother with a no-cd crack.
I know it's probably going to be one error message after another about all the services I have disabled though.
If I bother re-enabling all of them, I'll probably just leave them on so I can set things up to do maintenance from my main PC.
Running up and down the stairs because I forgot a file or forgot to unzip a file is getting old (they don't even have winzip installed, lol)

Also been thinking about giving iracing a try on the driving cab even though I suck at sim racing.
scofthe7seas:
You mean through steam? I wouldn't. As far as I know, those need network connections / steam access. Street Fighter 4 is pretty awesome on my cab though, I have to say. Wasn't interested in it at all on xbox.

Lew : I have heard of them, both of them require outgoing "hand shaking" streams.
Conficker was close to what you were saying, but it attacked corporations / registered domains. Nimda was spread the standard way : emails, websites, files.
A virus would have to ping random Ips to get someone just by logging on. I suppose by random chance you could be infected before it was stopped, but a person spreading a virus wouldn't typically do this because it would quickly be detected and precautions would be taken against it before it could cause much damage.

I'm not saying it's impossble, just saying in my years I have never seen it. I wouldn't worry about it in the slightest.
eds1275:
Mine's not. If I need anything I bring a memory stick over and do it that way. I have an LCD screen on it so it's easy to see the screen, but not arcade authentic.
Donkbaca:
That dungeon fighter looks sweet!

Not planning on having the cab connected, though I am planning on connecting the xbox for XBL
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