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best way to secure my wifi
Name: doctorfillgood Date: October 23, 2005 at 15:17:19 Pacific OS: winxp home CPU/Ram: P 3 500mhz
Comment:
hello i will be going on the road with my laptop and will be connecting to the net with wifi at truck stops and places i will be delivering cargo what do i need to do to make my laptop secure is there any settings with the wifi card i need to make i just got the laptop and wifi card i have done all the widows updates and set winxp home fire wall to on and i've installed a antivirus software and updated it as well
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Name: tropic Date: October 23, 2005 at 22:36:43 Pacific
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I'd say you're good to go. Just be careful not to submit credit card info or other important credentials on a foreign hotspot--you never know what kind of monitoring/redirection setups are in place.
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Name: OrionCA Date: October 24, 2005 at 11:25:37 Pacific
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Financial data should only be sent to an address starting with https\\ ; that means it's sent encrypted so that only that site can read it. Aside from that you sound almost good-to-go. Pick up an antispyware program like Ad-Aware or Spysweeper and make sure it's updated regularly.
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