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Kings Norton & District

Home security

Event type: Meeting
Date: 27th October 2025
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Group: The I.T Crowd
Venue: Member's Home

from Routers/firewalls/Wifi to your Devices/PCs firewalls (Again) and virus checkers.

We may also look at cookies. What are they and why are we so concerned about them.

  • How a visitor can be dangerous.
  • Router Nat (network address translation) translation Firewall
  • Other router options (Multiple SIDs/ 2.5 5g / Passwords/DNS)
  • PC firewall
  • PC virus protection
  • Android (Firewall? Virus protection?)
  • Wifi vs Wired
  • Email (Thunderbird (PC) show source - not in Android version)
  • Cookies (first and third party). How can we see them? Other types of browser storage
  • Restore points