Why Are So Many Users Not Aware Of Free Firewall Protection?
Let me start off with a true story about fire wall protection… Over my 20 year career as a computer tech, I’ve covered all angles of it. Less then a year ago, I was installing a wireless network in a home. In one room I see a peeled coffee can on top of a computer with a wire soldered to the side. I looked at it and pondered. Just then the owner walks in and smiles. “That’s so I can pick the signal up from the router across the street.” Not only was he getting free internet because his neighbors neglected to turn on there free firewall protection, if he wanted to, he could intercept any and all transactions made online. It is estimated that one third of all wireless networks are not secured. They don’t use encryption or utilize the free firewall protection available to them. “Hotspots” become more and more popular every month. Be it in businesses, hospitals, in homes, airports and now even parks. Yet this only makes it easier for electronic pickpockets to eavesdrop on you from miles
