This is an informative article.

http://www.windowssecrets.com/comp/050526/#story1

It's a little Window'ish but the meat is good.

Ryan

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Ryan McCain
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Linux System Administrator 3
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 225.219.0556
Fax: 225.219.0540

Registered Linux User #364609
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/27/05 9:58 PM >>>

Good question.  I'm just a beginner at WiFi, and my laptop doesn't
have any sensitive information beyond my ISP and mail passwords.

My wife's, on the other hand, does have some letters to and on
behalf of clients that she must keep private, though she is careful
what she writes since her archives may be subpoenaed in a
divorce or child custody case, etc.

At some point we will set up a WiFi network here in this building, so
I want to learn how to keep it private, though I don't expect anyone
to want to try very hard to penetrate it.

I did leave my dial-up connection on all afternoon one day and
some spammer managed to bounce a lot of messages through
my machine, as I discovered from both many delivery failures
and a nasty message from my ISP.    So I have Zone Alarm on
all our machines.  It reports over 5,000 attempted intrusions at
this machine in the last month, with 284 high-rated.   So if I get
DSL set up out here, I can expect a certain amount of garbage.

Choppy

At 08:57 PM 5/27/05 -0500, Will Hill wrote:

>What do you want to protect?  Your environment can make a difference.


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