Thank you and others who have discussed the question. I had read things in looking into the question I wasn't sure I fully understood. What you are saying goes along with my understanding of

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 02:35 AM, Gene wrote: Also, I connected a computer to my network a day or two ago that may have malware. Again, does the public setting protect my malware free computer from

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 02:35 AM, Gene wrote: My connection is currently set to public.- If I were using a shared network, even in an apartment building that supplies one, I would leave the WiFi

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 04:45 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote: put in public hot spots,- If they're unsecured/open (that is, you don't need a password to join the network) then they are "open

I will say this as simply as I can: Your best predictor of future infection is your history of past infection. If you've been using a decent security suite for years, and you can't remember the last

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 03:43 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote: I would also say, please never ever defrag an ssd, as this adds huge numbers of rewrites to the various cells and can shorten the

Gene wrote: Wired, where you plug in your own ethernet cable? If so, buy a router, plug it in, and hang all your compute hardware, your WIFI network, etc., off the private side of the router. Then at

Hello Brian, Some ISP routers do, indeed, turn on hotspot mode, in many cases, without the user knowing. This is intended to allow their other customers to connect to Internet, and for them to say

It really depends on what they call a shared network. I don't know if this is common abroad, but many ISPs give you a discount if you allow part of your network to look like a hot spot as well. I

I would second this. In 2015, I had my first desktop with a 256gig ssd. It was one of those that looks like a giant chip that plugged into the motherboard. In 2020, the machine refused to boot one

Sarah, Your advice is, quite frankly, incredibly dangerous. Gene can certainly do what you suggest, but I really don't recommend that. Scare tactics or otherwise, the dangers of doing personal web

Yeah basically, and don't do anything stupid that will get you into trouble in the first place.

That's good.  So evidently, all I need to do when being on a shared network in the building is have the firewall on, which it already is and use the public network setting, which I already

Don't worry about that, that is a scare tactic. Not everyone has the technical knowledge to accomplish this, and most articles prey on those with less knowledge to scare them into doing things that

That was my impression but I wasn't sure I understood some of the technical information I read. I saw something about a computer with full network privileges being able to launch attacks against

I would not worry at all, just do what you do, keep the windows firewall on, and that's about it, no need to do anything extra.

As I said last night, I may be moving to an apartment where all the tenants use the same network.  According to what I've read, the Windows Firewall will protect me from malicious incoming traffic,

Thanks brian. Sound advice, as usual.

Here’s what happens: When you connect to a wifi, the Stream will remember that wifi when you come back to that location and connect to it automatically. It should never ask for your password again

I have another question. If you find the network you want to connect to to get online, and you type in the password, is there a way to get it not to ask you for your password every time you want to