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On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:53:59 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message news:1102336618.09d33faec01ccec4b377cac6c4f8bed9@ teranews... 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. And that's another whole subject. I have a wireless router and I keep the firewall off because of the XP firewall and a specific firewall to the computer - but... There are several wireless computers surrounding the homestead in other homes and I have been infected several times via that route. I now keep the wireless portion of the router off until I need it. Even then, I keep a Spy Eye running in the background to make sure nobody is piggy backing on me. Later, Tom |
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