From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.15]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2342511 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:25:30 -0500 Message-ID: <49AAFD48.1080801@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:25:28 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081212 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.14 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Router security References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/01/09 02:39 pm, Ray Davison thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > >>> wife was issued an XP pro laptop. She claims she brought it home, >>> opened IE, and it connected to the WEB. Is this reasonable? >>> >> WEP64 should have at least kept the XP box from passing traffic. >> >> Wireless encryption or some authentication of some sort would block >> traffic from entering - and passing through - your router to the >> internet and your LAN (couldn't even send a print job to a >> network-attached printer). > > I thought the posts from you and Neil below - plus Bob's recent post - > had to do with using a MAC address system to keep out "innocent > wanderers". But it seems that activating any security that changes > the available network listing from public to private would keep them > from accessing either your LAN or internet connection. So how would > the white list keep them out more? > Either would achieve the same result for you. WEP64 is easily breakable; MAC filtering is easily spoofed. However, innocent people won't try either. >> Hmmm... This shouldn't be. Check that the dopey Windows firewall >> isn't turned on. (Kill it from Control Panel.) > > Yes it was, and now I am connected. > LOL!! That's M$'s answer to security: lock yourself in. ;-) Glad it was simple. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Treasurer, Warpstock Corporation www.warpstock.org -------------------------------------------------------------