WizGidget strongly recommends securing your WiFi (wireless) network. Having your Wifi router unsecured opens your network to abuse such as people using your network connection to send out spam and/or viruses, as well as giving them network access to your computers. Some of our advertising mentions some of the risks of having an unsecured WiFi, including mentioning a CNET article.
Here’s the article we mentioned on the WiFi Can-Spam conviction.
As a side note, though, we believe it’s not likely that much spam is being sent via “borrowed” WiFi bandwidth these days. Virtually all of the spam being sent out now is coming from a “botnet” — thousands to millions of individual PC’s that have been infected with a virus that then uses those computers to send out spam email, virus-infected email, and perpetrate something called a “Denial of Service”. You may remember hearing news about the network attack that brought down Facebook and Twitter recently — that attack was done using a botnet. Here’s an article about that.
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