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The Virus Did It

Posted by michael on from the dangers-of-running-insecure-operating-systems dept.

scubacuda writes "The Inquirer and Get Reading report that a UK man accused of having pornographic pictures of kids on his computer was acquitted after a court heard that his machine was infected with a Trojan on his PC which probably auto-downloaded the images. (In light of moves like Operation Ore, we'll probably hear more defenses like this.)"

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  1. Re:Pete Townsend by presearch · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And did you hear that you're a dumbass?
    Stop trying to be clever. It's not working.