gideon40 - 5/9/06 at 20:38
A colleague found a series or dodgy websites (html
files, graphics) on his Temp Internet folder at a
time when he was at work. Access was for
about 40 minutes.
He lives alone but left his laptop on at home.
The laptop has an active wireless card but no
wireless internet connection. The Windows firewall
setting was off and the laptop runs Windows XP
His home is in the middle of a number of
access points with at least one with no security
on it.
How is it possible that these websites appeared on
his drive? The websites were all from one site.
I have ruled out time changes on the clock
I am at a loss to explain it. Hope someone
can!
Traze - 11/1/10 at 05:45
This is strange!!
what i would say here is, on all shared
networks, whether wired or wireless, users can
potentially eavesdrop on each other's data, though it
is not usually likely that they will. Whenever it
is appropriate and practical, you should use
additional methods to secure your data
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