Good Reminders About Security on Public Wireless Networks

A New York Times article offers useful reminders that "Web Surfing in Public Places Is a Way to Court Trouble."

When on your own laptop, make sure to maximize your security strength:

• Set your ZoneAlarm firewall to HIGH.
• Add the new wireless network to the "Untrusted" zone.
• In advance, add sensitive data to ZoneAlarm’s IDLock (available in ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and Pro).

  You’ll then be warned if your data is being transmitted from your computer at a time when you haven’t sent it.

  A note about the alerts: If you have short numbers like 1234 you may get warnings since IDLock reports on any data leaving the computer including network traffic.