Child Porn Virus

[Nebulous]

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses – the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it's your reputation that's stolen.

Pedophiles can exploit virus-infected PCs to remotely store and view their stash without fear they'll get caught. Pranksters or someone trying to frame you can tap viruses to make it appear that you surf illegal Web sites.

Whatever the motivation, you get child porn on your computer – and might not realize it until police knock at your door.

Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/0 ... 50426.html

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Ive seen this all over the news lately. Can you believe this? :shake:

 

[Bossanova]

The police wouldn't "knock", they'd bust in kicking the door down. 😛

 

[fantanoice]

Goodness gracious. Makes you wonder who programs this sort of thing.

 

[Bossanova]

Goodness gracious. Makes you wonder who programs this sort of thing.

Idiots with too much free time.

 

[fantanoice]

Goodness gracious. Makes you wonder who programs this sort of thing.

Idiots with too much free time.

Even an idiot can know that's wrong.

 

[Nebulous]

Perverts with too much free time and do not care about ruining someone's life.

 

[Zenrer]

Goodness gracious. Makes you wonder who programs this sort of thing.

Idiots with too much free time.

Even an idiot can know that's wrong.

Exactly.

 

[Nebulous]

Well after hearing about all this.. I did a virus scan and upped my firewall settings.

 

[Summerlander]

Wow, when did all this start? My last scan was a couple days ago.

 

[Shiny Star]

The police wouldn't "knock", they'd bust in kicking the door down. 😛

lol, so true, but they might knock first.

 

[Twisted Fairytale]

Thats just crazy. I wouldn't really worry tho. If a policeman comes to you and finds that on your comp, ask them to search it and where it came from and they can find the I.P. of the person that put it on your computer.

 

[USHost247]

I'm going to increase the security on my computer when I get home. 🙂

Thanks.

 

[CyberFreak]

Thats just crazy. I wouldn't really worry tho. If a policeman comes to you and finds that on your comp, ask them to search it and where it came from and they can find the I.P. of the person that put it on your computer.

That is true but it is better to not be in the position of having to clear yourself.

 

[Cloverfield]

Some people are just sick. I'm glad I have Norton.

 

[Brack]

Some people are just sick. I'm glad I have Norton.

Poor Cloverfield

:rofl:

Get a decent one such as avast.

 

[Summerlander]

Some people are just sick. I'm glad I have Norton.

Poor Cloverfield

:rofl:

Get a decent one such as avast.

Lol, Webroot is the best. 😀

 

[Justin]

This is the worst ever!

 

[froggyboy604]

This virus sounds horrible since it make it harder for the government to catch the real pedophiles while framing the innocent.

I wonder if this virus is only available for Windows, and won't infect Linux, or MAC.

 

[DarkRaven]

I've got myself Ubuntu 9.10 and a load of new kick ass security. Linux only has around 800 - 1,000 viruses. Windows has a few hundred million.

 

[Rich Edmonds]

I take care on which sites I visit and make sure my router and firewall are both working accordingly. Although I use Linux and Windows, I have firewall configurations set and Anti-Viruses on both.