Using a network

[Fire Storm]

Just curious. If I'm using a netowork, say living in somebody's house and have access to their interenet connection and wifi, ok, the age old question, can they - owners - see what I'm viewing?

No, I'm not looking at pr0n. Sheesh.

But other personal things, msn, skype, documents etc? Can they even see this? What i've just typed? And visa versa for me too?

Just curious.

 

[JuddyBuddy]

Depends what you mean by 'network'. If the computers are actually on the same local network, then yes, they can view your documents and probably your history if they know where to look. You could view theirs too.

By the sounds of it though, you're just using the same wireless connection. In which case they can't browse to your documents or view your history or anything. That stuff is all stored on your computer, not on the modem.

 

[FIGJAM]

There will be some things they can see. I can see my housemates DLNA connections/servers and have set up some shared folders.

But I can't go into their web browsers to see whether or not they have been surfing pr0n (I don't buy the disclaimer in the OP).

 

[Fire Storm]

Just a home network. I'm using wifi on laptop and have a desktop using the Ethernet connection. So I guess I'm pretty safe.


And figjam? I don't even know what pr0n is. Isn't it 2nd goods or something?





Go the Catter's...

 

[drd23]

Not unless they have some sort of remote access software installed on your computer

 

[MarcusP2]

Unless they were extremely technically minded and were either packet sniffing or remote accessing your PC via a trojan or other software, then no. I mean, your office probably does it so it can be done but it's highly unlikely.