Beware Of The Evil 'Free Public WiFi'

[godnodog]

Oooppsss, just got caught 3 days ago, I thought it was my school new wifi network, so Portugal is also on the black list.

And I have SP3 installed....

 

[hoof_hearted]

How many people go to hotels and login to "Holiday Inn network" or such. What is to stop a hacker from creating his own radius server and phishing the hotels radius site?

 

[mwbeatty]

[citation][nom]tolham[/nom]ruh-roh gang, looks like we have to solve the mystery of the zombie networks! quick, someone get the doobie snacks![/citation]

Turns out the zombie was just the sysadmin in disguise trying to scare people away so he could have the bandwidth all to himself.

 

[davidbloomcan]

In fact, there may be good reasons why XP service pack 3 is not installed. On an older HP Athlon 64 based desktop, I have encountered a fatal conflict between Service Pack 3 and the driver for an older DLink USB attached wireless client. Given the option of installing Service Pack 3 or purchasing a new wireless device, I have been content with Service Pack 2.

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

Heh, I've seen the hpsetup one while in the computer science building at my college.

 

[mr_tuel]

I've seen "free public wifi" all over my university for years now. Maybe this explains why that is, since I'm sure a large proportion of the student/faculty body is running on out-of-date Windows XP installations.

 

[ithurtswhenipee]

Hmm, I have my wireless adapter set to only connect to wireless access points and not ad hoc networks. Non-issue for me.