Life-Ruining Browser Hijackers

LehiNephi writes "If you're not diligent enough at whacking malware on your computer, you could end up in jail, whether or not you actually did something wrong. Hijacked browsers can not only annoy you with a never-ending string of pop-ups, they leave a less-than-virtuous browser history behind on your computer. This guy claims that some piece of malware hijacked his home page, opened an unstoppable chain of pop-ups, and filled his cache with porn. He now has to register as a sex offender, even though he denies that he did anything his computer says he did. Makes me glad for built in pop-up blocking in Mozilla."

Comments

Re:Yeah, that's highly likely!

[gmack]

Once someone forwarded a link to a bunch of people in our office.. it went to a kiddy porn site.. wich opened another 10 sites wich all opened another 10.. the windows machines had to be rebooted.. and the linux machines had have a "killall -9 netscape" (this was before mozilla)

Those people really are souless. I fixed all 4 computers doing it then went for the washrooms to finish feeling sick.

They need to bring back the death penalty for the people who rape children producing this stuff.

Re:Harvard's Divinity Dean was fired for child por

[dioscaido]

It was kiddy porn. I imagine was downgraded to normal porn for the media, so as not to completely destroy the life of the guy.

Re:Yeah, that's highly likely!

[DrHyde]

IMO, if they're on a computer which is under his control (ie he owns it, or he administers it) then he deliberately put them there. He may have deliberately put them there by allowing his machine to become infected with some winfestation, but allow them he did.

I take the same attitude to spam. If your computer sends spam, regardless of whether you wanted it to or not, then you are a spammer and should do jail time for it.