<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>Heres a question for you... i have AV software of both my laptop and desktop and i have a wireless network so i can use the laptop in front of the TV, but i dont have my network secure. But, i'm also not sharing anything so does it matter is someone wants to borrow my Internet? I figure i'msafe.</div>
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Heres a question for you... i have AV software of both my laptop and desktop and i have a wireless network so i can use the laptop in front of the TV, but i dont have my network secure. But, i'm also not sharing anything so does it matter is someone
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<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Mount the hard drive in another computer. Other than that, no, I don't know how. Windows prevents you from modifying files that are in use. I'm not aware of any way around that.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Secure your network. It's not hard. Just put in a WEP key, and tell the laptop to use the same. Better yet, lock down the network to only use your MAC address.</div>
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>You're probably okay, since someone has to be physically be in range to get on your network, but it is possible for someone to do bad stuff if they do get on. The fact that someone can talk directly to your computer (with no firewall in the way) means you're vulnerable.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Sharing your drives would be the equivalent of leaving the doors wide open at your house. Sine and I are concerned with people who are trying to break the door down. You have a certain conception of what a network is, what can and can't be done, via how Windows works. There's more to it than that.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Heh...</div>
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>XP has a firewall. You can turn it on for each individual connection. I don't know how good it is - probably not the greatest - but it will probably serve your needs as long as you're always behind the router.</div>