Amie
Mac Convert for Life
Hello!
I have Airport installed on my laptop and use T-Mobile Hotspot as my ISP so that I can go to any Hotspot and get online. I take standard security precautions like turning firewall on and turning sharing off, etc. Is this sufficent, security-wise? I have a new iBook G4, so it already has pretty decent security features (it's a Mac, so it's pretty stable, anyway--not some flimsy PC! LOL). So, is this really all I need? I don't do any banking or anything like that online, so I'm not worried about credit card theft, etc. Just mainly worried about hackers getting into my computer and ruining my system and/or mooching (I think it's called "sniffing"?) off my wireless connection. Or am I just worrying unnecessarily?
Can someone please offer some advice? And, please, remember I'm fairly new to the "techie" side of Mac, so go easy on me--no fancy terms! LOL (I'm still reading/researching WAP, WEP, LAN, and all that good stuff.)
Thanks so much for your help, everyone!
I have Airport installed on my laptop and use T-Mobile Hotspot as my ISP so that I can go to any Hotspot and get online. I take standard security precautions like turning firewall on and turning sharing off, etc. Is this sufficent, security-wise? I have a new iBook G4, so it already has pretty decent security features (it's a Mac, so it's pretty stable, anyway--not some flimsy PC! LOL). So, is this really all I need? I don't do any banking or anything like that online, so I'm not worried about credit card theft, etc. Just mainly worried about hackers getting into my computer and ruining my system and/or mooching (I think it's called "sniffing"?) off my wireless connection. Or am I just worrying unnecessarily?
Can someone please offer some advice? And, please, remember I'm fairly new to the "techie" side of Mac, so go easy on me--no fancy terms! LOL (I'm still reading/researching WAP, WEP, LAN, and all that good stuff.)
Thanks so much for your help, everyone!