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Trojan Deletes Your Porn, Music & Warez
E. Vigilant writes "The new Trojan/Erazor-A has an interesting twist. In addition to deleting or disabling various security products and competing malware, it deletes any porn, warez and music in your P2P directories. While some opine that this trojan might have good intentions, remarkably few things infect the text files this trojan also deletes. No one yet knows who wrote this or why."
All I know is that this is a very important problem we have to fix!! Destroying our financial records and stealing our identity is one thing. But touch a geek's pr0n collection ------- this means WAR!
They're just trying to bridge the gap and establish a "me too" appeal to non-Christians, so they created a trojan virus to show that you can write malicious code if it does "good" things like deleting porn and illegally acquired software. While I applaud their attempt to reach out to the hardcore geek culture, I think the Christian computer world is best left to video games like the Left Behind RTS. I propose a new bracelet WWJC: What Would Jesus Code?
Nis
Of course it would delete your porn! Trojan wants you to go out and have real sex.
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I feel a great disturbance in the Force... As if a millions Slashdot posters all cried out in anguish...
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
"Thank god! I use linux!"
I thought Linux supported porn by now.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
This thing could delete the Internet
As for the Who and the Why. I blame the RI/MP Ass's. of America.
... and make a new commercial!
...]
[old guy is coughing, wheezing,
[young guy] On a mac, you don't have to worry about losing your pr0n and warez!
[young asian chic to young guys right seductively takes leg and wraps it around young guys waist]
[cut to pic of imac]
Storage Space Mysteriously Triples on File Servers around the World.
First they came for my credit card data, since I did not have Visa, I said nothing.
Then they came phishing for my bank account info, since I did not have a bank account, I said nothing.
Then they came for my porn...
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Gosh, I have plenty of MP3, AVI, MPEG, WMV, Gif, Zip graphic and video files ... that aren't porn, illegal music & warez.
/. ID on your way out.
Excuse me Sir, we've had some complaints from the other clientele, could you hand in your
'By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes'
The Windows Trojan/Erazer-A Trojan looks at default folders for downloading MP3, AVI, MPEG, WMV, Gif, Zip graphic and video files, and wipes anything it finds with these extensions in the target locations.
(...)
"The Erazer Trojan is a vigilante worthy of a Charles Bronson movie, taking the law into its own hands. However, it's perfectly possible for the Trojan to aim poorly and wipe out innocent files too," commented Graham Cluley of Sophos.
Aiming poorly? Yeah, if carpet bombing a country to hit a dart board is what you mean by aiming poorly...
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Don't worry if this thing deletes them. I've got them backed up for you.
This guy's the limit!
"Finally a threat that will make the average joe start to take computer security seriously!" Until a computer virus or trojan can come into your house, shave your eyebrows off while you're asleep, drink all your beer, and leave you with no toilet paper, the average joe will never take computer security seriously.
I felt a great disturbance from the Net, as if millions of gigs of porn suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly deleted.
As soon as someone comes up with a good looking GUI for it.
"Oooh shiny!" [click] [click]
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
Why the Christians, necessarily? A more likely culprit would be PETA, trying the protect all those cute fluffy kittens from the hand of a wrathful God.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
This is the last straw!!!! We have had it with you evil hax0rs!!!!!! Something must be done!!!!! THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THIS SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH!!!!
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
These people have gone too far. If I get infected by this I'm going straight to the FBI, this is too serious to joke about.
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I fowarded the story to my boss,
Five min later he ask me for a full back-up of his PC
I wonder why.....
Greetings, all.
I just wanted to offer my new backup service for all who of you who fear this trojan. Just contact me so we can arrange transfers. Please do not be wary of my generosity, for helping is its own reward.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
and everything in the My Documents folder.
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Considering the people I know, I think you'd be better off deleting documents from the Desktop...
"You are free to look at porn if you want to. Most dont, but you can."
Most Linux users don't look at porn? Didn't that all change when KDE came along and you didn't need both hands available?
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
In related news, dictionary.com has suffered the slashdot effect after a massive spike in searches for the definitions of "avarice" and "altruism".
Or, maybe not...
Similar to the upcoming US election results
Once again, this is Windows only.
Damn! Obviously, Linux isn't ready for the home user.
WhiteWolf666 an exBush supporter. All you new-school,compassionate,save the children Republicans can rot in hell
Not even that:
5) Trojan not only sentient, but self-sustainable and conventionally biased. Will take over the world.
Proof of Intelligent Design? You be the judge.
Defining Statistics and Social Research
Unless it also displays a dialog box stating that, "The Lord has decided that thou hast broken the following commandments: Thou Shalt Not Steal and Thou Shalt Not Have Naughty Thoughts. Your files have been deleted according to the rights granted to us by God as his Holy Warriors, and your screen saver is now made of publicity stills from The Passion of the Christ. Go with God."
:)
Then, maybe so...
The Overrated mod is for reversing inappropriate, positive mods, not for voicing disagreement with a post.
6) profit!!
MilkMiruku
Thank goodness, it was just a virus. I though I had a drinking problem.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
There is no way Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell would ever risk their own secret porn stash. The parent is clearly a troll.
I swear to god, if my Kazaa/Bearshare/whatever'd copy of Julie Strain in the hottest soft core scene ever filmed disappears, someone's gonna get hurt!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Done. Now what?
Some of my text files seem to be infected with a pox of periods, an abscess of ampersands, or an eruption of exclamation marks
That's just perl
Send me a copy, and I'll be part of your distributed backup strategy!
..which makes you connect to P2P again/more often to download "da stuff" again i.e. helping the trojan spread, by increasing online time and P2P time. OR makes you go out and play. tsts. evil geniuses can be beneficial sometimes, when they miss something :)
No Kidding. I need to pirate a fresh copy of Norton Anti-Virus off some P2P service before I fall victim to such a Trojan.