[Skooz]

The new version of the throw down pistol.

Yep. Anyone could put anything on your hard drive.

If someone is alone with your computer, it would take less than 5 minutes to create and password protect a directory and unload dozens of kiddie porn images on it.

And your pleas os "I didn't know that was on there;" "No, I don't know the password to that folder;" would fall on deaf ears.

[DB]

There are several Trojans that hijack your computer and turn it into a porn server...

I recently ran into a friends computer that was infected with something that constantly took the browser and added "favorites" of porn sites regardless of what you did. Ad-aware and other programs couldn't fix it. I finely had to give up and wipe the drive and reload the system.

[VRWC_minion]

If someone is alone with your computer, it would take less than 5 minutes to create and password protect a directory and unload dozens of kiddie porn images on it.

But your files keep all sorts of corrobrating data like dates and sequences of data. Some files keep track of internet sites you access. It wouldn't be hard to verify when these were downloaded. In addition, the ISP has records also to cross reference. The time delay may be due to such investigations and to answer legal questions.

[streetpreacher]

I'm on a university network and I was shocked when I found that I could access several other users computers and even move or delete their files if I wanted. I had just started using Windows XP and had never had this experience with 98. I went in and disabled Sharing from the root of my (C:) Drive. If I remember correctly, one of the user's files was infected with a virus.

If I had wanted I could have deleted everything or even placed files on their hard drive and as far I know, it would have been legal. After all, they essentially gave me "permission" to access their drive.