"Harry Krause" wrote in message
news:1102336618.09d33faec01ccec4b377cac6c4f8bed9@t eranews...


I believe our friend Tom frequents places he shouldn't...and picks up
doses of things polite folks don't mention in public!


This past summer I had a new laptop on the Navigator. I bought it because
it had a built in WiFi setup and the marina had WiFi service.

Within a month, I picked up some kind of worm, bug, virus, disease or
whatever that affected the search engines. Once in a while, instead of
displaying the results of my search, it would direct the computer to a porn
site. I really have no interest in these sites and had never purposely
visited any, but somehow the computer became infected with something.

Since then, I've learned more about WiFi service and it seems you have to be
very careful. Other people can apparently piggy-back on your computer to
gain access to the Internet.

Since switching to Firefox on that computer, I have had no further
problems. That reminds me. I've got to download Firefox and Thunderbird and
install them on this laptop.

Eisboch