sniffers

Greetings All, I'm sure by now almost everyone on this universe is aware of this irritating sniffers going on. PCs in LAN are easy prey, specially where they are connected thru a HUB. All the yahoo chats could be recorded by the sniffers and hence the privacy is F*****d to core.. I'm sick of...

I am using a Sify Broadband Connection. The LAN which Sify provides to its users is very unsecure, some guys in my LAN are using packet sniffers & chat sniffers to get hold of the sites & IM chat. I already tried "IM Secure Pro" from Zone Labs, but no use. How do I protect myself from such...