Hi Leon,
Sil is right - I have hacked into (my own) WEP-secure WIFI within a lunch break when I was testing how secure it was. If you are still using WEP encryption, definitely change it to WPS encryption. Very easily done through the settings on your router. As for the updates, if you just open the updates settings page (via control panel or on the icon itself) you can set it to 'notify but do not download'. Guide here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/w...#1TC=windows-7
That's for Windows 7 but the procedure is pretty much the same on any version. And use passPHRASES instead of passWORDS for your wifi. Much more effective