Well, first anything you do on your "work" laptop is subject to monitoring
by your company. Its their laptop after all. Just don't do anything on that
laptop you might regret.

Secondly if the VPN is setup correctly you will not be able to access your
home LAN and other local PCs shared files/folders while connected through
the VPN to your work network. I always setup my OpenVPN server to force all
client traffic through the tunnel and back to the work network. That is a
basic security measure to isolate the work network from the remote network.

Thirdly you could setup firewall software on your home PCs to block access
to shared files/folders from your work laptop.

Basically you need to use some common sense and some practical security
measures on your home LAN.

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"lisa harkema" <lisa.harkema@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does work vpn compromise home privacy & security?
>
> I work for a snooping kind of company where I would not put it past
> them to watch what I do on my personal home computer if they could.
>
> Can they "see" what I do on my home laptop when I vpn from home on my
> work laptop?
>
> Often I am asked by my manager to use Nortel VPN to connect to the
> work network using my home ISP on my work-owned portable Windows XP
> laptop. At the same time, I am on my home WinXP PC connecting through
> the same Linksys wireless router.
>
> I'm pretty sure when I do not VPN in from the work computer, they
> can't "see" what I do on the home computer ..... but when I vpn in on
> the work computer on the same network as the home computer .. .... can
> they "see" what I do on the home computer?
>
> Does VPN compromise my home security or is my home PC activity still
> secure?