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God I hope someone can help me with this issue. I'm pretty sure it's something simple I'm missing. I have AC1750 (C6300) Cable Modem with Xfinity service. I want to connect a USB drive to the rou...
I’m a novice when it comes to these IT stuff so please be patient.
With my current setting of No Password for Read or Write access to my mapped USB drive plugged into my router, anyone who wants to hack into it would need to hack into my router first since I did not enable Internet access (only local access)?
With my current setting of No Password for Read or Write access to my mapped USB drive plugged into my router, anyone who wants to hack into it would need to hack into my router first since I did not enable Internet access (only local access)?
nextmilenium wrote:
I’m a novice when it comes to these IT stuff so please be patient.
With my current setting of No Password for Read or Write access to my mapped USB drive plugged into my router, anyone who wants to hack into it would need to hack into my router first since I did not enable Internet access (only local access)?
The problem here isn't the USB drive. It's that relaxing the security built into Windows opens up the PC to more malware attacks - particularly when you are not home, and are using a hotspot or guest network.That is why Microsoft adjusted their security in the first place.
A better plan is to set up passwords on the USB drive. Then you can (if you wish) store those passwords in the PC using the Windows Credentials Manager.
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