I write to inquire about what one can do to prevent intrusion while navigating the internet in such a Wi Fi environment. I have XP pro with virus. antispyware, and firewall enabled. Aside from disabling file and print sharing in the windows firewall what other precautions can one take? Guidance sought.
mnewsome 0 Junior Poster
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
not a lot. What you need to remember is that public wifi is usually unsecured or poorly secured (even if its encrypted, a single compromised client machine out of the hundreds that use that access point each day, could compromise the security of all the clients). Simply, never ever ever connect to a corporate vpn or do online shopping or banking over public wifi.
GrimJack 1,414 Posting Maven Featured Poster
Also, be careful of phish sites that look like you are connecting Starbucks access point. and turn off plug and play.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
and turn off plug and play.
i think you mean UpNp as opposed to PnP
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
A live Linux cd ,if it for simple net surfing, would be more secure at such a place ,
Try Puppy Linux or Knoppix,with Puppy they actually have ones that you make that the disk is made in multi-secession mode also, you can actually save info back to the disk if your laptop has a burner in it .
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
UpNp is network related, PnP is hardware e.g pci cards
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