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Old May 19th 10, 07:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
MowGreen
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Default Is my computer less secure not using a proxy server?

kevinla wrote:
XP- 32 Bit

I am on a home network. If the settings on IE 8 under Internet Options

Connections LAN Settings Proxy server

The box next to "Use a proxy server for your LAN" is not checked



That's because the system is not using a proxy server. Proxy servers are
not necessarily related to security.

Have you heard of Wikipedia or search engines (google; bing, yahoo, etc)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server



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