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| Guest | Laptop Security I recently bought a laptop with Vista Home Premium installed. I'm anticipating a trip and will be keeping business files on the laptop that I would like to secure (I also will be connecting to public networks. What is the best way to secure the laptop's data from physical AND the public networks? Thanks! |
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| Guest | Re: Laptop Security 1. Click the blue Start button and then click "Help and Support". 2. Type the word SECURITY in the search box, hit enter. 3. Then click on "Understanding security and safe computing". -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "James Colbert" wrote: I recently bought a laptop with Vista Home Premium installed. I'm anticipating a trip and will be keeping business files on the laptop that I would like to secure (I also will be connecting to public networks. What is the best way to secure the laptop's data from physical AND the public networks? Thanks! |
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| Guest | Re: Laptop Security In terms of encryption, Home Premium does not come with Bitlocker. You may want to check out TrueCrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org/ TrueCrypt is an open source encryption program (free) that will allow you to encrypt your work files. In terms of public networks make sure you have a good firewall. Beyond that it really depends on what you are going to use the computer for when logged on to a public network. -----Original Message----- From: James Colbert [mailto:jcolbert@yahoo.com] Posted At: February-11-07 7:39 PM Posted To: microsoft.public.windows.vista.security Conversation: Laptop Security Subject: Laptop Security I recently bought a laptop with Vista Home Premium installed. I'm anticipating a trip and will be keeping business files on the laptop that I would like to secure (I also will be connecting to public networks. What is the best way to secure the laptop's data from physical AND the public networks? Thanks! |
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| Guest | Re: Laptop Security Hi, TRUE CRYPT cannot run in VISTA, for now. Not even DRIVECRYPT from securstar...(best one) BITLOCKER seems nice but depends on VISTA'S version to be availiable. PUBLIC networks can indeed represent danger to your files, so a better set of firewall rules is a major concern. Modify your public firewall set of rules(in administrative tools) to BLOCK ALL in and out network, then manually allow new rules for each program intended to be used in this situation. Forgive my english...It's the lack of use... |
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| Guest | Re: Laptop Security Hi Tim What are the isseues you have seen with TruCrypt? I have run some basic tests on my Vista PC and it seems to work fine? Ta "Tim" <timinfonet@yahoo.com.br> wrote in message news:Oa7W%23AuTHHA.3304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hi, > TRUE CRYPT cannot run in VISTA, for now. Not even DRIVECRYPT from > securstar...(best one) > BITLOCKER seems nice but depends on VISTA'S version to be availiable. > PUBLIC networks can indeed represent danger to your files, so a better set > of firewall rules is a major concern. > Modify your public firewall set of rules(in administrative tools) to BLOCK > ALL in and out network, then manually allow new rules for each program > intended to be used in this situation. > > Forgive my english...It's the lack of use... |
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| Guest | Re: Laptop Security "Tim" <timinfonet@yahoo.com.br> wrote in message news:Oa7W%23AuTHHA.3304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hi, > TRUE CRYPT cannot run in VISTA, for now. Not even DRIVECRYPT from > securstar...(best one) > BITLOCKER seems nice but depends on VISTA'S version to be availiable. > PUBLIC networks can indeed represent danger to your files, so a better set > of firewall rules is a major concern. > Modify your public firewall set of rules(in administrative tools) to BLOCK > ALL in and out network, then manually allow new rules for each program > intended to be used in this situation. Good suggestion...thanks. > > Forgive my english...It's the lack of use... Your english is fine and perfectly understandable. Thanks, James |
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| Guest | Re: Laptop Security "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message news:9F0EB4C1-3E90-4003-9AE5-B8F6CE317046@microsoft.com... > 1. Click the blue Start button and then click "Help and Support". > 2. Type the word SECURITY in the search box, hit enter. > 3. Then click on "Understanding security and safe computing". > Thanks. However, I'm already familiar with the basic stuff. My concern is more directed toward data security and keeping people on wireless public networks from accessing my system, as my OP indicated. James > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "James Colbert" wrote: > > I recently bought a laptop with Vista Home Premium installed. I'm > anticipating a trip and will be keeping business files on the laptop that > I > would like to secure (I also will be connecting to public networks. > > What is the best way to secure the laptop's data from physical AND the > public networks? > > Thanks! > |
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