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Story: Internet porn: Guilty till proven innocent
Posted by: Richard (Tuesday 21 September 2004, 2:45 PM)
Good Article, thanks:
Recently I rebuilt the ancient PC belonging to an elderly lady neighbour. The PC had been running so slowly that it refused to print.
While cleaning out the unnecessary software and files I found many traces of unpleasant pornography left by previous owners of the PC. Several cookies had stored those owners' names and dates of access. Some of the pornographic sites had planted trojans and diallers.
Presumably in today's Britain I should have rung the police and/or the tabloids?
Somehow it seemed far better just to delete the files and then run my best anti-spyware and anti-virus software before returning the cleaned PC with a brief circumspect explanation.
(ps. This cleaned PC now runs and prints.)
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