Actually, as long as the computer is infected, it can potentially result in huge losses. You may think that the data in your computer is not worth much; however, a hacker can use your computer as a platform for his illegal acts. As a result, you get involved in police inquiry and bring tremendous disturbance to yourself to prove your innocence, as their investigations showed your IP address being involved.
Hence, even if you have done nothing wrong, you may still need to spend lots of effort to prove that your computer is indeed being used by a hacker as a springboard. Failure to do so may bring you even more distress. Do not think there is nothing in your PC that is worth hacking into. Unless you have zero transactions on the internet, else a hacker can also use your (eg. online auction) account and mislead other users to trade with you, while transferring the cash to his own. For such a situation, you will still be the highlight of the investigations as your IP, auction account, and email address are used for the transaction when you are infected with a backdoor program. There are actually more information in your PC than what you think, that can be used by a hacker for his unlawful activities.
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