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Story: Trojan horse found responsible for child porn
Posted by: W Martin (Saturday 16 August 2003, 9:11 AM)
I had a bad experience with a porn trojan, but thankfully it was just embarrassing as it was adult porn rather than child porn.
I was helping out a woman friend (who I only know a little) by downloading a song track from a singer she was into. One of the files was zip rather than mp3 and as it was smaller than the rest I downloaded it.
I should have known better than run the file (I am an IT contractor!) but we were in a hurry and did not spot it was a program not an mp3. As I opened the file my web browser took on a life of its own and started opening to various porn sites. As I closed one another opened. My new friend was sitting with me as this happened!
I later discovered that it had added links in my start menu, it added links on my desktop, they were all over the place. My machine looked like I was an avid visitor to these sites.
As I say, thankfully, it was not child porn sites that the trojan launched and installed links to on my machine, but it could just have easily been. If it had been child porn sites I don't know what my female friend would have done or whether she would have understood what had happened. I am not sure she understood as it was...
I know of a guy whose nephew borrowed his computer and then accussed him of accessng child porn as he found links to these sites on the PC. As you can imagine this caused big trouble in the family.
Maybe the nephew was downloading mp3's and got another version of the trojan I found and without realising it loaded lots of child porn links onto his uncle's computer...
If i suspected someone I would look to see how obvious the links were. Nobody who lets someone else use their machine will be too likely to have lots of links in obvious places where they can be found easily (unless they are a very naive user).
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Story: Trojan horse found responsible for child porn
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I use both Norton Antivirus and Norton Personal Fi... Sean K. Davis
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I noticed the article failed to identify which tro... Anonymous
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I honestly don't believe a word tha... H.A.C.P. (Hackers Against Child Porn)
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child porn Ddredar
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rubbish! jody uk
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How does someone ever recover from beiung wrongly... Ken O'Brien
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How does someone ever recover from beiung wrongly... Anonymous
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Just shows how inoccent people can become victims.... Anonymous
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It is easy to setup someones computer so that it l... Technical Guru
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Last week I was charged with child porn possession... Anonymous
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I had a bad experience with a porn trojan, but tha... W Martin -
i was not surprises by the trojan horses situation... Anonymous
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Response to Anonymous from USA:
First of all you h... Carlos Martins
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i was downloading song.all of a sudden popup... moisa
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Your sticky situation Ddredar
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Carlos Cruz, one of the most famous portuguese ent... Carlos Martins
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Can someone tell me how we can locate the actual r... Anonymous
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what sick person or people put it there in the fri... ants
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we have a trojan porn horse infecting our computer... Anonymous
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The trojan could be in your bios try and flash upd... Anonymous
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I am also currently being investigated for child p... Anonymous
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Nov 2004. UK. If you are being investigated f... Anonymous
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I have now been investigated for a perio... Gus
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Hi GUS,
Firstly, sorry to hear abou... pedo on paper
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Protect your computer from spy... pedo on paper
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My son is in jail because the son of a b... Anonymous
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Hello My partner os going through the same th... Anonymous
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the police should be arresting the people who put... Anonymous
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find out where the troojan horse worm is installed... nicholas dyer
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how do you detect and erase this kind of thing Anonymous
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I have been charged with alleged making child porn... Anon
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what is Police doing to stop this Trojan Horse ???... Adam Albers
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My company found child porn photos on my hard driv... Anonymous
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my name is Julian Green,the man you are talking ab... julian henry green
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Your continuing woes. Ddredar
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Child porn sites Ddredar
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advice jody uk
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Support jody uk
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Been through 8 months of hell myself FALSEACCUSATION
