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Do you ever use public Wi-Fi hotspots? If you are increasingly using them, you have company. A study done by iPass late last year, showed that work-related hotspot usage was up 68 percent in 2007, relative to 2006. Airports topped the list of public places where users wirelessly connect. The vast majority of hotspot users, though, don't take the right steps to secure their sessions. In this post, I'll cover five free open source and freeware applications you can use to lock down your sessions.

Like many a web worker, my browser of choice is Firefox. I favor it because it's less of a target for hackers than Internet Explorer, has good security features, and I make use of lots of useful extensions for it. However, I run both Firefox and Internet Explorer and frequently jump into Internet Explorer when I run into problems in Firefox, or when downloading new applications (this just seems to work more smoothly in Internet Explorer). If you, as I do, use Internet Explorer, definitely look into IE7Pro-a free download add-on that adds lots of useful features to the browser.

Depending on how far back you go with the internet, it's pretty likely that you used to use Netscape Navigator to browser the web.