WiFi how secure is it away from home.

[rustic]

Thanks Darwin for spending the time to explain that, when I go to the bank they are surprised that I do not use internet banking, if I had I would have been panicking last week when that Trogan got into my system.
We use telephone banking to transfer small amounts to a seperate account that we use for a debit card, to save on Credit card transaction fees, with fraud they can only get what is there... Not much.
The Ken Dodd method of banking in this current climate of low interest, looks preferable. ( ie keep it under the matress.... )

 

[clivvy]

your banks internet site, and your accoutn access through it, is secure, genrally you will be ok so long as no one is looking over your shoulder as you type your decurity keys etc, but that goes without saying.

as for wep etc, perfectly fine for home use, even for small business, but most companies now use WPA-EPA, and require mac address filtering, quite simply at the moment, an outsider cant connect to the network. There is lots more you can do to ensure security, its just most people dont bother because its a ball ache. at home, i use mac filtering, WPA AND my wireless is invisible, so I dont get hacked!