Don't Use Public Wi-Fi Hot Spots Without Protection

Those free public Wi-Fi hot spots look convenient, but don't hook up to one with your laptop without protecting it first. Hackers are just waiting to grab unprotected data that you may send from your laptop, or which may be stored on your laptop that the hacker can read from his own laptop nearby, because when you connect to the Wi-Fi hot spot, you're on an unprotected network. Your firewall needs to protect your laptop from any would-be intruders. Read Preston Gralla's article, "How to protect yourself at wireless hot spots," to find out what you need to do to protect your laptop from those intruders.