It really doesn’t take a virus to put stuff on your PC. Just leave your firewall off and don’t turn WEP on. The neighborhood young’uns can put all kinds of stuff on your drive.
What’s WEP?
I had not thought of the wireless aspect, but that would be correct. If the person with the wireless router just leaves it set to the default password, then anyone in the neighborhood could access it.
>>The neighborhood young’uns can put all kinds of stuff on your drive.<<
Malicious hackers are almost the same as virus authors. For them, we bring back the stocks.
My 30ish neighbor, a network engineer, cracked my WEP in about 2 minutes to show me how unsecure it is. I took his advice and started using the TKIP and screening for MAC address. It's sage advice.
Use WPA, not WEP. It's much more secure.
The neighborhood young’uns can put all kinds of stuff on your drive.
Why bother? In order to do that, they have to defeat your computer's security. If they're on your network, it's simpler just to email a death threat from your IP address to the proper destination. Then they can sit back and watch the vehicles move into place around your house.