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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."
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used by many a "real" sex offender.
"Honest, it was a trojan your honour"
That would require some form of intellegence at the justice department.
Popup blocking, tabbed browsing, superfast layout engine, ability to turn on and off javascript. Makes you wonder if the developers of Mozilla were really trying to make a better pr0n browser, eh?
Well, they succeeded.
I guess they meant unallocated as in "not allocated for browser cache", e.g. in c:\myporn
This reminds me of the saying "Nobody ever got fired for choosing Windows".
"No, but it did get someone registered as a sex offender."
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
a Mac. Nobody knows that I am a perverted sex offender!
Whoops, should have posted anonymous...
eleven plus two / twelve plus one
I use lynx for all my porn needs
London
Tuesday, 21st June 2004
Today, 23-old Welsh Web designer, Nomis Rollav, of Llandudno, North Wales confessed today for making the 'sextoy' computer virus and releasing it to the net. As one may have heared, 'sextoy' virus installs illegal pornograph and banned music content onto people's hard drives before spreading. The virus itself is quite clever, it tries to simulate a frustrated adult male anywhere between 3 and 5AM, it starts at one of 10 common sex portals and slowly browses, in a random sort of manner to other portals. It downloads to the unsuspecting user's computer videos of child pornography and even sodomy.
Where most viruses do minimal damage, or at the very most wipe someone's hard drive; the 'sextoy' virus is far worse. It has lead to a string of divorces across the bible belt of the United States. It has also led to widespread firing of employees in several fortune 500 corporations which have a zero tollerance for pornography. At the peak of the virus's life, it had prompted the jailing of innocent US victims by John Ashcroft and the US Justice Department.
When asked if he was repentant, Nomis replied: "Well, I'd do two things differently if I had a chance. First, I'd find some way to piggy back on other people's habits, for example, if they go to Fredricks or Victoria Secret regularly, I'd make sure to mix the vits to child porn sites with visits to their normal viewing habits. Second, I'd build an IM client support so that the virus can attempt to corner policemen disguized as underage females. Third, I'd make the virus a bit more self limiting; this one was far too successful."
Legal scholors across the globe are wondering how to make viewing illegal pornography enforcable. The recent push-back on legislation happened when US Senator Orrin Hatch's own computer became infected causing him to be picked up, accidently by the "p0rn police". The very next day Senator Hatch introduced legislation making it a terrorist act, and punshable by death, to make viruses which spread pornography. The legislation also makes those with assets of more than one million dollars immune to the anti-porn laws. Senator Hatch was not available for comment.
"Oh man, check out the META tags on her!"
Either that, or Ascii Pr0n NSFW
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
You can't hide behind Mozilla -or anything for the matter. Lynx :-P
Here you go, buddy.
"Committing a felony is as easy as just one click." :-(!!!! I've been trying for years and I haven't succeeded yet! What am I doing wrong?
Sincerely,
KidLuvr321@aol.com
- In your field, have there been stories about abuses by organizations? I've heard (on Slashdot, anyway) that the FBI was very powerful in the 30s and the 50s/50s.
What are you saying, that the FBI was very powerful in the 30s and then half (50/50) of the rest of the time?The guy should sue Amazon, they have the patent on that
-paul
Pistol caliber is like religion: everyone has their favourite, and theirs is the only right choice.
Why would you be tutoring a neighbor kid anyway? you might as well just avoid all the other steps and register yourself as a sex offender right off the bat. I make sure to NEVER talk to my neighbors and always hurry from the car to the house without making eye contact with them if they try to start a conversation. One almost ambushed me and stood between me and my door but I kicked him in the nuts and ran into the house.
Yeah but then they have to throw the bailiff in jail.
Jesse Lucious from the band Blatz was arrested for playing naked and had to register as a sex offender
So was he using a ten year old boy as a guitar or what?
Okay, now that the requisite idiot-proofing is out of the way . . .
Methinks you underestimate the ingenuity of the average idiot.