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sindhara
03-02-10, 01:17 AM
There are quite a few risks associated with wireless internet connections. While the more benign among the spyware and adware programmers monitor the sites that the user visits on the web simply to be able to assess the success of their marketing efforts and identify the web-surfing habits of wire less internet users, there are types of spyware that go beyond these limits. They undermine the user’s wireless internet security, by carefully monitoring the keystrokes and actually capturing passwords and other functions. This surely crosses the line and poses a very definite wireless computer security risk.

haebyungdae
03-02-10, 05:39 AM
Any connection, wireless or wired, to the internet is dangerous to your information. Wired is no more safe than wireless and people can attack you no matter what you are doing. The only thing to protect ones self is to be conscience of what you are doing, installing, etc. and taking measures to minimize your risk by not downloading weird files, P2P (in a lot of cases), minimize online shopping to trusted sites, etc.

I think most people are aware of this, so what is the point? Getting in a car and driving is inherently dangerous but most of us do it anyways but takes steps to minimize risk.