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Trojan Deletes Your Porn, Music & Warez

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the someone-else-to-think-for-you dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Altruism? I have my doubts... by phyrebyrd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I see an option 3 here.

    3) A strike against the MPAA, RIAA and any other "law abiding" corporation (who manages to be capable of CREATING those very laws) by targeting the computers that seed the incomplete, misnamed and intentionally infected files and the files on computers that have downloaded from them by users stupid enough to download things under 1kb.

    Any smart P2P user changes the default directories to customize their own bitspace so it's easier for the person using the software to find what they've downloaded, not to mention archive on another device or media those files they truly wish to retain.

    Do note that I did say *smart*.

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  2. Add option #4 by WidescreenFreak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Call me cynical, but add:

    4) Write a trojan to wipe out what people apparently consider to be important so that they are more aware of virus scanners.

    Hmmm... would the various anti-virus companies do something like this to advertise the need for their products on people who lose gigs and gigs of files to a trojan? Nahhh....

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