How good is wireless network security under Vista?
. There’s good news here as well. When you first connect to a wireless network, you tell Windows Vista whether it’s a public or private one. (A public network, such as a hotspot, can be used by anyone, so it’s inherently insecure. A private network, such as your home network or a corporate network, is more secure than a public one.) Based on your answer, Windows Vista applies a constellation of security settings to that network, and it reapplies those settings whenever you connect to it. Network discovery–which Vista uses to allow other devices to connect to your PC and to share its files and folders–is turned off in public networks (to increase your security) but turned on in private ones.
. There’s good news here as well. When you first connect to a wireless network, you tell Windows Vista whether it’s a public or private one. (A public network, such as a hotspot, can be used by anyone, so it’s inherently insecure. A private network, such as your home network or a corporate network, is more secure than a public one.) Based on your answer, Windows Vista applies a constellation of security settings to that network, and it reapplies those settings whenever you connect to it. Network discovery–which Vista uses to allow other devices to connect to your PC and to share its files and folders–is turned off in public networks (to increase your security) but turned on in private ones.
