Re: Laptop, wi-fi, VPN, no firewall -- what's safe?

For about 50 dollars you can get a USB wireless firewall (personally I don't
trust the Windows firewall too much). I use one from Kensington like this
one http://us.kensington.com/html/6500.html

Mike Grant
Bytware, Inc.
775-851-2900 

http://www.bytware.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:09 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: [PCTECH] Laptop, wi-fi, VPN, no firewall -- what's safe?


I am using a company-issued laptop that has Contivity VPN 
Client installed.
I had my first Wi-Fi experience last night (at a microbrewery watching
Tigers baseball! Yeah!); the connection was "unsecured".  Was 
I "vulnerable"
while I was connnected through the VPN client?  It seems to 
me that the VPN
only protects the company network, but doesn't necessarily 
protect anything
on my laptop.

There is no firewall running on this laptop and the "setup" 
has Windows
Firewall turned off and unable to be turned on (greyed out).  
The network
guys said that the firewall is on the network.  I asked about 
the scenario I
presented above and I think they are looking at installing 
the Symnatec
firewall they half-expected would be installed already.

TIA,
Dan
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