Originally Posted by A C

I have a small local PC Repair company, Im thinking about having techs drive around and look for unsecure wifi spots. Once they find one they knock on the door and give them the speech:

"Hey My names Blah From Blahblah, we are offering our services for free for resedences' that have unsecure wireless networks. The dangers of leaving your network unsecure are blahblah."

They get in and lock up the wireless for them, and in the mean time chances are the people have hellish spyware problems, 80% of people we service do, and they say

"hey this is running pretty slow for a fairly new dell. Would you like to scheduale an apointment some time next week to have one of us come out and clean this up for you?"

I need to look into the legalities of all this and the liability the techs would have by working on the pc to lock up the wireless. But I think we would be offering a valuable service for free, and we should make a good ROI. If nothing else its great advertisement. Could get news paper to write about the company saying how we've locked up 500 unsecure networks in the area etc.

Please discuss pros and cons...

AC