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Using NAT, Does the Host Check for Viruses?

Jun 16, 2009 9:46 AM

Click to view mirroman's profile Novice mirroman 6 posts since
Nov 18, 2006
After installing a virus checker (Avast) in Guest XP64 in Host Vista 64 and using NAT, I wondered whether the Host was checking for viruses before it passed the internet data on to the Guest? That would make it unnecessary to use a virus checker in the guest --> increased performance. I doubt it but it seems worth asking. Thank you.
Reply Re: Using NAT, Does the Host Check for Viruses? Jun 16, 2009 9:56 AM
Click to view continuum's profile Guru continuum 12,253 posts since
Dec 18, 2003
of course not - its just a simple NAT-service - this passes packages based on IPs - it does not inspect those packages

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