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To: lizma
Well, not to dismiss your fears, they're certainly justified considering what information you had available, but in all liklihood, this is nothing to to concerned about.

Most likely, they simply found that you had an open wireless network and were freeloading your internet and nothing more. This is far more common than you would believe.

In the meantime, start using WEP. That's what it's there for.

12 posted on 01/15/2004 6:26:40 PM PST by tdadams
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To: tdadams; DouglasKC; Petronski; js1138
Thanks for the reassuring comments.

I wouldn't be so paranoid, but my 9 year old daughter was sitting in the back seat. She thought she saw our bank logo (which was present on some of the scanned bank statements on the possibly compromised machine) on the laptop in the evil SUV. She independently asked me why our bank logo was on the other person's computer. Of course, she could have been mistaken, but I'm not eager to take chances.
16 posted on 01/15/2004 6:42:57 PM PST by lizma
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To: tdadams
In the meantime, start using WEP. That's what it's there for.

WEP seriously degrades your signal range. At least on the units I've tried.

19 posted on 01/15/2004 6:46:24 PM PST by js1138
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