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NP. BTW -- if you are really interested in maintaining privacy/security, stay away from wireless networking gear. It's far too easily compromised. There are ways of making it more secure -- enabling the built-in WEP protocols, disabling the SSID broadcast and such, but still, when running a...

Any particular book(s) you recommend? I'm very new to TA myself, and don't have enough knowledge of the subject to ask intelligent questions at this point. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

There are several sites you can visit which will allow you to determine how vulnerable you are to hacking. In essence, each of these sites attempts (with your authorization) to access your computer. The extent to which they are successful (or not) allows you to gauge how vulnerable you might...

You can get FireFox (browser only) or Mozilla (browser, e-mail client, etc.) at www.mozilla.org It has fewer issues than IE. Among other things, I do not believe that browser hijacking is an issue with either Mozilla or FireFox. Also, with Mozilla (which I use) and presumably with FireFox...