Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number Home Made OS Windows 7 Ult X64 CPU Intel I7-3770K Motherboard ASRock Extreme 4 Memory 32GB G-Skill C11Q Graphics Card EVGA GTX 670 2GB SC Sound Card Creative Fataility Gamer Monitor(s) Displays LG E2742V x 2 Screen Resolution 1920x10880
Keyboard Logitech Wireless Mouse Logitech Wireless PSU Corsair HX 650 Case Whitebox Cooling Noctua NH-U9B-SE2 Hard Drives 256GB Vertex 4 SSD
1GB Seagate ST1000DM001 Internet Speed Dodo ADSL 2+ 1 mbps Antivirus Malwarebytes Browser IE 8 Other Info Router: D-Link 2740B
You will want to start by going to your network and sharing center can be found in control panel and once that is open click on change advanced sharing settings and there you can find the settings for home or work and public networks. What you will want to do is under home or work make sure the tic is checked on Turn off network discovery, also turn off file printer sharing and turn off public folder sharing.
System Manufacturer/Model Number ASUSTeK Computer/ ASUS Notebook U52F Series OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 CPU DualCore Intel Core i3-380M 2.53GHz Memory 4.00 Graphics Card Intel(R) HD Graphics Monitor(s) Displays 15.6" Screen Resolution 1360x768
Hard Drives 596 GB, IDE Internet Speed 16MB Other Info Wireless LAN adapter: Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6250 AGN
Ethernet adapter: Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
System Manufacturer/Model Number ASUSTeK Computer/ ASUS Notebook U52F Series OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 CPU DualCore Intel Core i3-380M 2.53GHz Memory 4.00 Graphics Card Intel(R) HD Graphics Monitor(s) Displays 15.6" Screen Resolution 1360x768
Hard Drives 596 GB, IDE Internet Speed 16MB Other Info Wireless LAN adapter: Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6250 AGN
Ethernet adapter: Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
The home or work and public are separate because when you connect to a new network it will ask you which type of network should it belong to "home or work/public". Just makes it easier to setup home or work one way and keep it that way and public differently and maybe more secure that way you won't have to setup the settings each and every time you connect to a network, you can just choose your premade setup. Now to answer your question more directly it all depends on how you have the settings setup in the 2 choices, one could be more secure than the other.
System Manufacturer/Model Number ASUSTeK Computer/ ASUS Notebook U52F Series OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 CPU DualCore Intel Core i3-380M 2.53GHz Memory 4.00 Graphics Card Intel(R) HD Graphics Monitor(s) Displays 15.6" Screen Resolution 1360x768
Hard Drives 596 GB, IDE Internet Speed 16MB Other Info Wireless LAN adapter: Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6250 AGN
Ethernet adapter: Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
System Manufacturer/Model Number ASUSTeK Computer/ ASUS Notebook U52F Series OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 CPU DualCore Intel Core i3-380M 2.53GHz Memory 4.00 Graphics Card Intel(R) HD Graphics Monitor(s) Displays 15.6" Screen Resolution 1360x768
Hard Drives 596 GB, IDE Internet Speed 16MB Other Info Wireless LAN adapter: Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6250 AGN
Ethernet adapter: Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
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