anyone have experience of internet cafe's or free access library pc's ?

Carpetpaul said: "I'm off on hols for a few weeks, and although I know I'm likely to gain access to some form of p.c where I can email from, I don't have much experience of these machines and what facilities they offer. I figure that I'll likely have my laptop with me, but I'm not that likely to be able to get an internet connection for it, so my thoughts were perhaps to head down to the local library to contact home. I wanted to know how likely I am to be able to send pictures of my holiday back to my place of work, this is obviously important because it will really p*ss them off. I can burn a cd with the pictures, or see if they have a usb to take my camera direct ? what would you suggest ?"

Heather said: "Hello. The last time I logged into a public terminal, services and what they let you do is very limited. I would also be very leary of leaving my log in information on a computer that others have access to. Some hotels offer internet access free of charge if you have a laptop."

edwin said: "don't leave any passwords anywhere. so don't log in. since its a public terminal, at least one person has installed a keystroke saver and will be happy to hack all your accounts if you make the mistake of logging in."

Darksat said: "You should be able to find a net cafe that will let you plug in your laptop, or if you have a wireless laptop just find a wifi hotspot. where are you going for holidays?"

mark said: "[QUOTE=edwin]don't leave any passwords anywhere. so don't log in. since its a public terminal, at least one person has installed a keystroke saver and will be happy to hack all your accounts if you make the mistake of logging in.[/QUOTE] You've got to be joking :confused: I'm intending on updating my site and doing my banking from an internet cafe. Please tell me that it'll be safe, otherwise I won't be able to sleep at night :D"

SlitheryImp said: "If you are worried about security ask about it at the Internet cafe. Some are pretty dodgy and wouldn't know if a keylogger had been placed on their system at all. Others actually reload a fresh image onto the machines every morning. Just ask a few questions, you''ll know quickly enough if they know what they are doing."

edwin said: "darksat is right though. wifi would be the only solution i would call "secure"."

Darksat said: "Well I would hardly call wifi secure, but if you download and run adaware and perhaps use an online virus scanner like housecall then you should be fine."