Identity theft software

espresso

froggy27 wrote:

I've very recently gone wireless and the programme showed how easy it was to pick up signals unless your laptop/signal was 'locked' .. can sbdy pls explain how to do that? I have a voyager 2091 router and adapter....
any other advice to protect my latptop will be welcome...
thanks in advance...

The following links tell you what you need to do:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2471408&postcount=37

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2471410&postcount=38

They were written for Netgear routers but you should be able to follow the procedure with your Voyager. If you get stuck, come back with specific questions.

MadCowMan

Moneymaker wrote:

Probably stating the obvious but if you use a Mac you don't need any anti-virus software slowing it down or interfering with your work (and needing daily updates - according to that TV programme). There's very little risk of keyloggers or trojans - in fact there aren't any yet - (but you can run "Little Snitch" if you are really paranoid) and OSX is inherently more secure than any flavour of Windows.

ahh , security by obscurity
would be good if you were actually correct.
http://www.macvirus.org/

An AV update takes about 30 seconds of my day. MACs are just as vulnerable to phishing exploits & social engineering ( the cynic in me suspects possibly more so) , so I wouldn't use the excuse of only having 1 mouse button as a reason to surf carelessly...

billy_the_kid_2

I shred everything with any personal details on it before it goes to recycle, and I use strong passwords containing 10 or more charecters containing upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. I never use the same password for two applications.

Lakeuk

billy_the_kid wrote:

I shred everything with any personal details on it before it goes to recycle, and I use strong passwords containing 10 or more charecters containing upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. I never use the same password for two applications.

But do you write them down so you can remember them?

billy_the_kid_2

I use password safe

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

ianian99

my advice is NEVER use wifi wether encrypted or not as too easy to hack

Nikolai

I don't think WPA-PSK is particularly easy to hack - is it?
I know WEP is relatively easy though.

Moneymaker

MadCowMan wrote:

would be good if you were actually correct.

I am correct. Your link points to reports of one Windows virus (???) and three theoretical trojan possibilities that are not available "in the wild". There are, to date, no OSX viruses in the wild. For the numerically challenged, that's zero. That compares quite favourably with Windows malware for which the count varies between 40,000 and 100,000+ of which some hundreds are currently active.

I think my statement that "OSX is inherently more secure than any flavour of Windows" is indisputable. :rolleyes:

You may, of course, prefer the excitement and interruptions that Windows provides.

MadCowMan

OSX is far from perfect and there are exploit mechanism available , it would just seem that following the laws of probability , there are a lot more windows boxes to exploit and hence the time to develop malware ( which is more than often financially motivated ) for a mac isn't cost effective.Yes, there is a good level of security by default with OSX, but its not exactly rocket science to secure a windows box with a little common sense ( I assume that's not an optional extra with a mac ? ) and if OSX has nothing in the wild , why do the major AV vendors make AV software for it ?

At the end of the day if you can sit someone infront of it , you can compromise it.

billy_the_kid_2

The wierdy beardy hippy ethical hackers made me laugh. what did they actually do apart from driving around with a laptop and gawping at the amount of unprotected networks. As far as i can remember, the only advice they gave was to use up to date virus software.