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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. So? by NRP128 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it makes it so that is not longer a fad or fashion to pirate media, and stops the lusers from bringing down the heat of the RIAA and MPAA (face it, piracy, especially of the digital variety, has been around forever, it only became a problem when it was a household name). If you're dumb enough to be on BearShare or eMule or whatever other P2Ps are still running (i gave up keeping track) you're probably not smart enough to run decent A/V software and keep it updated, with a few exceptions of course. Maybe the RIAA did so it...i don't particularly care. I hate to see people lose their 'stuff' but we've all been there, its part of it. eventually you learn to use alternative OSes as your file servers and do as good of a job backing up as you can :)

  2. Re:Uhoh by bigmouth_strikes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah and while your at it, move them out of your /Uploads directory as well. We're tired of laughing at your book keeping skillz.

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  3. Re:OOOOOOOOHHH NOOOOOOO!! by mobby_6kl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    DO NOT WANT!

  4. Re:Altruism? I have my doubts... by silverkniveshotmail. · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Who cares? Anything, ANYTHING that torments and confounds microcomputer users (especially Windows users) is 100% welcome in my book. Anyone, ANYONE who writes these programs to me is an out and out hero. Mainframers are laughing at you, micro-lusers.
    Micricomputer users? Who the fuck uses the phrase "microcomputer"???? And why would anyone use a mainframe for looking at web pages anyway?
  5. Hi.. my name is Tom Osborne... by modi123 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ... and I approve this virus. I was the third district republican congressman from Nebraska. More importantly I was the Husker's football coach. I attempted to run for state governor recently on the coattails of my fame as a coach. I am a 'promise keeper' and I side with Jack Thompson on the overly abundant evidence that videogames lead to kids killing kids. Additionally I believe that pr0n leads to rape, dehumanization, kiddie molestation, and sexual deviance. Clearly as an aging football coach from a generally backwards red state I wrote this virus.

    No one yet knows who wrote this or why."

  6. Re:Slashspin by Zemran · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would get pretty pissed off if someone deleted my porn :(( there is nothing illegal about porn unless you are underage, the girl is underage or it is extreme. I can imagine that next time my wife says let's watch a video first and I say 'O my god, the virus ate it!!!' I will not be happy :((

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