charlie brown-
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Firewall (software):
Firewall (hardware):
WEP vs. WPA:
WEP was an early wireless encryption protocol. It is an acronym for Wired Equivalency Protocol. Over the past few years, it has been proven crackable, and should not be used.
SSID broadcasting and why I think you should leave it on:
Getmac results from my laptop:
00-40-45-15-0C-42 Media disconnected ? my disconnected RJ45
As you can see, each MAC address consists of five groupings of two hex characters.
(Hexidecimal means based on a numbering system of sixteen. We use the ten-based decimal system. A twelve-based system would be duodecimal.)
AdAware vs. Spybot Search and Destroy: