Things haven't been quite right since that episode.
The answers to most of your wireless questions can be found at the Wi-Fi.org website. People are apparently hard at work solving the security issues while refining connectivity.
Posted on 12/31/2004 3:26:00 PM PST by BJungNan
My computer is set to advise me if a site I am going to is trying to download something onto my computer and gives me the option to download or cancel. I just went to Drudge's site and got a warning about an attempted download.
Drudge has been dumping at 3 to 7 spyware programs on my computer each time I visit - I've checked by clearing all spyware and then going to his site and checking again. That's bad enough. But, now to have direct downloads from from Drudge, that is not alright.
Likely it is from the same pop-ups and not specifically from Drudge's page, one of his advertisers. Some will say you a pop up blocker but those get in the way of the some of the functionality of sites I use on the net. I tolerate the pop-ups because it is less trouble to click them away than to turn on and off a pop-up stopper program.
The questions are these: Is Drudge being careful enough with the pop-ups he is facilitating through his site? Was there malicious code in the download that was attempted? Will Drudge address this? I have found no such instance on any other site I frequent except those in Asia that seem to love this practice.
One other question: Is anyone aware of any sort of malicious code that can be delivered through a site that wants to download to your computer just by visiting it?
Wireless technology is still evolving and shaking out it's standards. I won't use it myself due to it's very nature (copier machines transmit signals that can be received by equipment a half-mile away - how secure is this development?). If radio bandwiths are required you have zip security using wireless equipment. I've heard of people cruising around collecting wireless transmissions for amusement and profit.
At mensnewsdaily.com it's even worse. No pop-ups, but stealthy spyware. As soon as I hit the site, my spyware stopper starts blipping off the charts -- as many as eight different spyware programs try to infiltrate my pc in the first 30 seconds. I guess that's one per ad.
I heard enough about it now so I downloaded firefox (mozilla). It was definitely faster than explorer, and the bookmark manager is so much better than explorers! I was always annoyed by MS's favorites manager. It sucked. So now, after only a few minutes, I have easily organized some of my bookmarks and will probably be a firefox user from now on! Haven't even gotten to the tabs part yet!
PS. Go SC!
"Download it and use it. You'll be happier than Michael Moore at a fudge factory"
There's a joke there, but I don't need to get banned from the forum
but you cannot buy the quality that I now have.
If I can't buy it, how did you buy it?
wifi allows wireless access in places where a wireless network has been setup [as long as you have permission and info for accessing]. Places like your home, starbucks, kinkos and many airports. I thought about buying a laptop , but they're still so expensive and they've gotten HUGE.
A neat little feature of my ipaq is that the infrared port will let me remote control any tv anywhere...so i could switch a bar tv from cnn to fnc! but, i still need to buy a keyboard.
Have a look at the HP Jornada 720. It comes with the keyboard already. And has the infrared port also for data transfer.
You can change TV channels? Wow. What software do I need to do that. I'd love to switch the TV at the airport bar from CNN to FoxNews.
Anyhow, do have a look at the Jornada 720. Besides the keyboard, the screen is horizontal instead of verticle. You can fit the entire width of a web page in the screen without having to scroll side to side.
Now, off to ebay to check for a wifi.
I'm rural. About the only thing listening here would be a few cows, horses, or chickens. Having said that, however, it probably wouldn't hurt to check that out. Suppose I wanted to drive up the driveway to the road, park, then pull out a laptop to see if someone driving by could dial into my bandwidth. What would I need to do? It seems like it would be as simple as deleting my network connection, then rebooting at the road and running Network Setup Wizard.
I've heard of people doing this, too, so it's probably a common occurence. Is there any way you can configure a firewall to prevent it? If my neighbor down the road was doing it, would there be any way for me to know? Any tell-tale signs to look for? Do you (or anyone else reading this) know of any good forums that deal with this issue so I can educate myself without bugging FReepers with stupid questions? Are you tired of me asking questions yet?
:-D
One other related question that I've always wondered about...
If it's so easy to capture your neighbor's bandwidth, what keeps the signals separate? For instance, suppose I was sitting at the road trying to capture my own bandwidth as I mentioned above. And suppose some of my neighbors were also using wireless...
What keeps the wireless signals separate? What would determine whose signal the laptop captured? Distance? Does it simply boil down to whose wireless router was the closest to my laptop?
By the way, here's a nifty HTML editor/web authoring download from Wojanware that does the same thing as MS FrontPage, for free! The program is called "Blink" and can be downloaded here:
http://www.wojanware.com/
I've been using it for a few weeks and I actually like it better than FrontPage.
Easier to use? By what standard? Not to start a religious war here or anything, but Firefox is dead simple to use. I don't see how they could have made it ANY simpler. Heck, even my wife is about a technically inclined as my toaster (no offense - she says the same thing about herself...) and is a "if-it's-not-AOL-I-can't-use-it" sort of computer user has tried and liked Firefox...
The difference is that I've tried both. You haven't.
The short answer is that nothing keeps the wireless signals "separate". What is most important when looking at a wireless solution is to ensure that your choice supports the WAP 256 protocol, which encrypts your transmission. Each device of yours that you want to enable has the secret key (a string of characters) encoded into it. No code, no access. Oh, your neighbor might be able to tell that you have wireless - they won't be able to steal bandwidth with a properly installed network... Also, protecting your Access Point by limiting those machines that can use it is highly recommended - and in these days of browser-based admin - easy to do as well.
Sir or Madam, please do not be so presumptuous. I worked at Netscape before most people even knew what a browser was. I have used both IE and Netscape since the beginning. My name is encoded in the binaries of many Netscape products. I have (and still do) build Firefox, Thunderbird, and numerous other open source software projects from source on a regular basis (for Windows, Linux, and Sun). So, please, don't give me that lame BS answer... I Do know the difference between "hard-to-use" and "easy-to-use"
BTW, if you've drunk the M$ koolaid long enough, you'll never think that anything created outside Redmond is any good. Take a look at any respectable ISP and see what hardware they run to serve their customers (HINT - it's NOT NT/XP/2000 or 2003).
Nice resume. Who cares. Again The difference is that I've tried both. You haven't.
I have both. Since I upgraded XP to SP2, I haven't had any reason to use Firefox. But once the spam-masters find new ways around the MS popup blocker, I'll be ready to switch back.
They live together well.
BTW, as a side note, Window's firewall, though improved in SP2, is still pretty-much a one-way firewall, blocking incoming, but not outgoing garbage. I use an older simple program called Tiny Personal Firewall. Its hard to find, since this version isn't available any more. But it blocks inbound and outbound so that if you do get a virus or some errant program that wants to call home on its own, you'll be protected.
Thanks for the response. Now I'm off to see Mr. Google again to find out if my setup is "protecting my access point" with encryption. I've used PGP before... How hard could this be? :-)
Things haven't been quite right since that episode.
The answers to most of your wireless questions can be found at the Wi-Fi.org website. People are apparently hard at work solving the security issues while refining connectivity.
As things stand - I could post that I have a major artery bleeding profusely and that I need help ASAP in "Breaking News", and it would be thrown into the Smokey Backroom.
Dye your hair blonde -- that may work.
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