Internet usage on the road
We are dreaming of becoming snowbirds, hopefully next year. My question is how and where do you do internet banking such as transferring money and checking accounts. This past summer we went on an ext...
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John&Joey wrote:
On the topic of security patches, Windows come with automatic updates turned on as standard. If you attempt to turn it off you will get a lot of "don't do it stupid" type of lingo.
Would love to see a document on how one of these "hackers" could install a Trojan horse on a standard strangers laptop by being logged into the same network.
If that was truly the case just think of the thousands of hotels out there with Wi-Fi for their business clients and the liability they would incur.
This link lists a large number of vulnerabilities that are out there. Any that allow remote execution of arbitrary code can be exploited to install keyloggers or Trojans onto an unpatched machine.
The network provider is not liable for any losses incurred by users on that network that are hacked by other users on that same network. That would be like blaming the phone company for prank calls. It is your responsibility to protect yourself from the viruses on the Internet, not your Internet Provider.
