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turning a wireless router on and off videtichj@aol.c 03-26-2006
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?dmlkZXRpY2hqQGFvbC5j on March 26, 2006, 10:11 pm
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can a person turn on a wireless router in a home and expose that computer
with the DSL connection to viruses via use of the wireless connection with a
laptop?

Posted by Steven L Umbach on March 26, 2006, 10:20 pm
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Wireless is just another form of network connectivity and if you have
configure the laptop and the other computer to have network connectivity
such as for access to file shares then yes viruses/worms could propagate
between computers. If you have no need to access shares between computers
then enable a firewall like the Windows Firewall to protect the computers
from each other and disable file and print sharing. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxpsp2/Default.mspx
--- Protect Your PC tips.

> can a person turn on a wireless router in a home and expose that computer
> with the DSL connection to viruses via use of the wireless connection with
> a
> laptop?



Posted by =?Utf-8?B?dmlkZXRpY2hqQGFvbC5j on March 27, 2006, 8:06 am
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So now that the main desktop in the household has a possible virus, and not
the laptop, since my sister did not have her firewall running at the time of
wireless activation of the modem, wha tis the next step in cleaning up the
virus from the computer. Should she reformat the hard drive to original
factory settings, or how could the loss of connectivity be fixed so that her
modem can be accessed via her computer again?

"videtichj@aol.com" wrote:

> can a person turn on a wireless router in a home and expose that computer
> with the DSL connection to viruses via use of the wireless connection with a
> laptop?

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