SoonerAl
Old Enough To Know Better
Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-23
Norman, OK
|  reply to THUD300
Re: How easy?
To add to the others comments run a software firewall on the laptop and configure it to block all incoming connections. Vista makes it real easy to setup and connect to a new network. It has a feature called Network Awarness and configures such things as file and print sharing or the built-in Windows Firewall according to what you tell it your connection type is, ie. Home, Work or Public. For Vista and XP help with that see the end of this page...
»theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/L···ity.html
Run a good anti-virus and anti-spyware program and keep them up to date. I use AVG 8 (the free version) and Windows Defender.
If your ISP provides SSL encrypted email use that exclusively. If they don't you could use a Gmail account to fetch email from your ISP. This latter method is what I use. See the screen shots.
»Re: [Outlook] Outlook mail forwarding question
You can also use an option like Mail2Web to send/receive email via a SSL connection.
»https://www.mail2web.com/cgi-bin/login.a···d=0&il=1
An additional option is to use a SSH tunnel back to your home LAN while at a public hot spot and run all web browsing traffic through its SOCKS proxy function.
»theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/S···ser.html
Another thread on this issue...
»Secure Net Access in Hotel Room
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