Re: how to turn a pc in a wireless router without the use of drivers

On Nov 13, 7:05 pm, John Navas <spamfilt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 13 Nov 2008 19:50:40 GMT, Axel Hammerschmidt <hl...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <Xns9B55D403A1A50hlexahotmail...@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

Look what the cat dragged in - :

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A solution would be to turn the pc, you get assigned, into a wireless
router and access the net from your laptop through the router. You
would need to do this however without installing any network drivers.
The machines are pretty much locked down and do not allow driver
installs.

Why not just use "the pc, you get assigned"?

Lots of reasons; e.g.,
Possible keylogger
Lack of personal data files.
etc.

I never ever use public computers for anything the least bit sensitive.

Yes: pc in internet shops, are, as a rule, infected. You think that
teenager that was online before you was really careful with the shop's
pc ?

More reasons: the keyboard is in another language and it's really
hard to find certain keys. Takes a lot longer to type when they
switch the keys and labels around. And don't forget about the
inevitable broken space bar, etc from gaming abuse. Not to mention
that it's the crappiest keyboard around, the mouse is set a foot up
with the monitor on a short cord - basically everything you could
imagine about the interface can be really bad - as long as somebody
can still use it, somehow, it's rentable.

I was in town the other day and had to get into my email for a package
confirmation code so I went to an internet shop. But I could not
sign in to my email for the life of me. FINALLY I typed the PW into a
text editor so I could see it and figured out that one key related to
my PW was not working on the keyboard. I really hope there were no
keyloggers, it did seem like a well managed shop... but.

More reasons: the browser has all the automatic settings you hate.
There are so many toolbars on the browser that you can hardly see the
pages. There are ten useless programs running in the background
that clog up the pc....on top of the infections....

Steve



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