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Posted by Sebastian Gottschalk on January 16, 2007, 10:34 am
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nigel wrote:
> I recently connected up a wireless router to my comp and a neighbor has told
me
> he was picking it up.He says he could tell another neighbor was connecting to
> it (by name).I of course immediatley with help installed a password and put on
> the routers firewall which I had off though I run ZA.
>
> What I need to know is just how much would someone on another connection off
my
> modem/router be able to read my files.
By exploiting ZoneAlarm? By inserting malicious software into the
wirelessly transferred data?
> I'm especially concerned as I had some
> word docs in my document folder which are sensitive and my bank details though
> no numbers.
Or by exploiting Word with a Word document. :-)
> What is the likelihood?
Well, depends on if you actually deployed strong encryption (WPA, WPAv2,
IEEE 802.11i, IPsec, ...) on your router. If the traffic is encrypted, it
should be way harder to attack ZoneAlarm.
I wonder: Shouldn't it be better to simply uninstall ZoneAlarm?
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