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2003-08-04 Britain

UK: Trojan horse downloads child porn on victimâs computer

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Posted by Dar 2003-08-04 1:59:09 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good questions. This just doesn't make sense as a random event. What are the odds of visiting a particular pernicious website out of the millions? Being drawn there - by an email, perhaps? I write webapps - and the user's machine is more open than many would like to believe, so doing something like this isn't impossible - it's just improbable as hell. Lessee, back to the cop's creed: Motive, Means...

Posted by Â·com 2003-8-4 4:59:42 PM|| 2003-8-4 4:59:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, this stuff has already been reported in professional papers and sites -

New trojan peddles porn while you work

Posted by Don 2003-8-4 5:43:08 PM|| 2003-8-4 5:43:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Don - Thx for the link...

The operation of the trojan (migmaf? WTF?) is, indeed, interesting. P2P file-swapping apps like Kazaa, and before it Napster and 3 or 4 others, are rife with shitheads spreading viral files and pgms. Remember one of the first such gambits, AOLFree, about 7 yrs ago? Burned a LOT of people and it was a real bitch virus: a disk-wiper.

Good article - Thx, again.

Posted by Â·com 2003-8-4 6:16:22 PM|| 2003-8-4 6:16:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Re: 3 questions
1.) This is the UK not US; they don't need a search warrant.
2.) Obviously, the ex stood to gain, but sometimes the answer is not obvious
3.)Probably much more widespread than has been reported
The best defense against computer hackers and terrorists alike is common sense (which, regretably, isn't all that common).

Posted by Anonymous Troll 2003-8-4 11:57:28 PM|| 2003-8-4 11:57:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 AT: Don't need a search warrant?! What sort of police state do you think the UK is? It actually states in the article "police with a search warrant".

Posted by Bulldog 2003-8-5 4:20:31 AM|| 2003-8-5 4:20:31 AM|| Front Page Top

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