[Clinging Bitterly]

>> downloading things they REALLY would not like to be tracable back to them

I reckon so, though I'm not sure what sort of stuff that would be. I think most of the folks you find discussing this on the net are simply doing it because they can, and aren't after any particular sort of content.

The point of my earlier post was that if someone was habitually connecting from the same place all the time, they could be easily found, but if neighbors were sharing a wireless network by mutual agreement, I don't think there would be any criminal issues.

[Rodney King]

Since you guys know computers, I was wondering if you could help me with something. At any given time if I do a ctrl-alt-dlt I have like 31 processes running. What are all these, what can I do to get rid of them? These are waht I have right now:

opera.exe (browser)
taskmgr.exe
zonealarm.exe
msnmsgr.exe
ctfmon.exe
qttask.exe
LMpdpsrv.exe
McVSEscn.ece
MCAGENT.exe
MCVSSHLD.exe
ATIPTAXX.exe
Explorer.exe
VSMON.exe
Spoolsv.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe again, and somtimes there are 3 or 4 of these
mdm.exe
svchost.exe again
svchost.exe again
mcvsrte.exe
lsass.exe
services.exe
winlogon.exe
ati2EVXX.exe
csrss.exe
smss.exe
msmsgs.exe
mcvsftsn.exe
system
system idle process

Many thanks to anyone who can help me!!