Re: [fw-wiz] wireless security on notebooks

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Andres wrote:

When I'm at home, I want to use the access point's firewall, and leave
all the other things unsecured, like the file sharing turned on on the
notebooks (I'm using WEP).

WEP is dead. If you're not using WPA, you have no security.

I don't want to fill my computer of antivirus, anti spyware, and
Norton rubbish, I prefer a simple configuration like this.
Please, if you have some ideas about this, share it with me, or
perhaps to tell me that I'm missing something that makes this
situation nonviable.

All the Windows attacks of late have been in-band, if you're not running
AV on Windows the only way to save yourself from anything other than DLL
injections is to be running software restriction policies in default deny
mode. Without on-access AV scanning and ant-spyware scanning you're
likely to have a compromise.

Paul
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