Re: Laptop, wi-fi, VPN, no firewall -- what's safe?

["QSCANFSCTL" <QSCANFSCTL@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For about 50 dollars you can get a USB wireless firewall (personally I don't
trust the Windows firewall too much). I use one from Kensington like this
one http://us.kensington.com/html/6500.html

Mike Grant
Bytware, Inc.
775-851-2900 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:09 AM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: [PCTECH] Laptop, wi-fi, VPN, no firewall -- what's safe?
>
>
> I am using a company-issued laptop that has Contivity VPN 
> Client installed.
> I had my first Wi-Fi experience last night (at a microbrewery watching
> Tigers baseball! Yeah!); the connection was "unsecured".  Was 
> I "vulnerable"
> while I was connnected through the VPN client?  It seems to 
> me that the VPN
> only protects the company network, but doesn't necessarily 
> protect anything
> on my laptop.
>
> There is no firewall running on this laptop and the "setup" 
> has Windows
> Firewall turned off and unable to be turned on (greyed out).  
> The network
> guys said that the firewall is on the network.  I asked about 
> the scenario I
> presented above and I think they are looking at installing 
> the Symnatec
> firewall they half-expected would be installed already.
>
> TIA,
> Dan
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