Whoever made this virus is a pervert.
ping
say what??
Does it create specific files or folder names we can search for?
How does one know it’s there? How would one get it off if it were found? Lastly how would the Feds know it was there if the computer owner didn’t know?
If I was an evil kid in school these days, all I would have to do is wait for the teacher to leave his computer unattended for a moment and point his browser to a porn site (let a few pics download, then close the browser)... then make an anonymous call to the cops.
So that guy who claimed his cat downloaded the porn (maybe because he couldn’t think of any other explanation) might be innocent?
Wow.
I didn’t see the discussion but have become concerned for some time now it could inadvertently happen to anyone through a virus. It would be extremely difficult to prove your innocence.
Another possibility along those lines occurred to me, leave it at that.
It sounds like the police are alerted to certain ISP addresses being sources of child porn, and they track down people who log into those sites and arrest them and take their computer to search, and if they find bad stuff charge the person with downloading child porn.
So if someone else used the computer to go to child porn sites or installed a program on it to go to child porn sites in the background while connected to the internet, the person who was registered / logged onto that computer would be suspected of visiting those sites.
In some cases it does look like a setup. Doesn’t anyone ever flush (clean) their Internet browser cache every time they log off, or am I the only one? (Not that I visit porn sites, but I just flush everything out so It’ll load all new pages next time so I don’t miss anything new).
This sure shows a really good reason not to leave your computer unattended when you are logged in.
It looks like pirated software sites and sites that provide “free” porn would be ones to avoid.
Also with file sharing programs (bit torrent comes to mind), I would think = it’s possible that some of those files could be child porn.
I think the kiddie porn pervs are intentionally loading this virus onto their machines - then they can be as ‘sick as they wanna be’ and if caught, they can exclaim ‘oh no! it must be that porn virus I read about on democraticunderground.com!’
Hot flash... this has been around a long time. It is particularly common in places like Yahoo Messenger, where messages can be sent to thousands of subscribers simultaneously.
Usully with bait like "Great ______" (fill in the blank.)
They are usually a zip file with 0 files.
Idiots who open these are almost sure to do it just once.
Moral of the story: if you don't know the sender, Don't open it!
more OH NO news
Gotta love these alarming AP virus articles that make no mention of the name of the actual virus/worm/trojan that is the culprit. Red alert! A virus may be storing child porn on your computer! We won’t tell you what the virus is called or how to get rid of it, but you should be scared!
Searches of F-Prot, McAfee and Symantec virus databases for “child porn,” “child pornography,” “pedophilia” and the like came up empty. Hmmm...Would be nice to know exactly what threat we’re talking about here, but I guess I’m expecting too much from the AP.
Checkmate.
Old news. These types of viruses have been around for awhile.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/LegalCenter/story?id=2785054