computer help: How private can a home network be? - Help.com

You network has an IP which can be read and so does your ISP. If you use firefox, there is a setting to hide the IP.

He can’t see anything, as long as you have a firewall that should be fine. He will not be able to see where you are surfing. All he would be able to see is that you are online and the amount of data being used.

If you are running windows XP with service pack 2, you already have a firewall. If you don’t have service pack 2, then download that and it has a simple firewall in it and it is good enough for your needs.

If you are not sure.

Click the Start button

Move up to settings

Move over to control panel and click on the icon, it will load up your control panel.

You should see windows firewall

your landlord would have to be able to put something like a “trojan horse”
on your computer.its illegal.
but if he broke in when you were not there maybe he could.
but he would have to be very computer smart to know how to get past your
password etc.

it is very private as a rule.

it is very secure when you’re doing Internet banking; its the little padlock
a showing in the lower right-hand corner.
It took 400 computers 11 months to crack a single line of code
with 128 bit security. Used by the banks.

very tough!!not impossible but tough.

so your land lord could use his 400 computers over the next 11 months
and get your password for your bank account. And then he can use it
to steal the $49 you have left in your account?
I think he should just sell the 400 computers.

Is the cord a phone line or a network cable?

If it’s a phone line, you have your own modem etc.. then you are probably 100% private.

If it’s a network cable (sounds like it is), AND your landlord is VERY VERY computer savvy, they could see which web sites you visit. I *think* it is possible they could also intercept what you put into web forms (e.g. posts on this web site) too. But I’m not totally sure on that.

If the website you access starts with https:// (note the “s” for secure) then you are completely secure, it is the padlock thing described above.

Unless your landlord is a serious computer geek you’re probably fine :)

Also, it would be illegal to spy on you like that (unless they mentioned it in your rental agreement).

note: firewalls are useful for stopping trojans etc.. but they don’t usually help with privacy as in this case

You only have one IP not one for Pc and ISP ??? It will all depend on certain things , firewalls will stop folk getting on your pc , if your ISP uses a proxy they can record any web site your on they have to record all users on their network as seen recently in UK by virgin media who warned hundreds of customers they were reporting them for P2P sharing to FAST . I doubt your landlord supplies the internet but it will be in your agreement lease. HTTPS can only be as secure as the lines the run along …i.e network sniffers can break into cabling and detect passwords and usernames …etc I would assume your safe till you find out otherwise …