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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-11 09:52 AM
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If you buy a laptop and don't have an ISP, what do you do for virus protection?

You can go places and use free wi-fi but don't know if I would trust that for virus protection.


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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-11 01:30 AM
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1. If you go to a free wifi connection, 1st thing I'd do is download a free AV program from CNet
or Microsoft Security Essentials. You can shut down the wifi connection and install the software. That will protect you from normal virus and malware that you could get from e-mail attachments and scamware sites.

The free wifi is open to anyone and there are people using software to exploit these networks and gain access to your PC. I think there is probably specific software or things you can do to make that access more difficult or impossible, but you'd probably want to do some Google research on that.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-11 08:21 AM
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2. Thanks! nt
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