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Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong"

Posted by Soulskill on from the attack-of-conscience dept.

NoisySplatter writes "Ernesto, founder of TorrentFreak, reports that a new trojan, 'Troj/Qhost-AC,' has been distributed on The Pirate Bay. The virus was disguised as a serial key generator, and the offending torrent has since been removed, but the source has not been identified. Troj/Qhost-AC makes changes to the user's hosts file that redirects The Pirate Bay, Suprbay, and Mininova to 127.0.0.1. In addition to making three popular torrent sites inaccessible, the virus also plays a sound file that says: 'downloading is wrong.' It looks like someone has finally stepped up to the plate to challenge Madonna for the title of 'Most Obnoxious Anti-Piracy Stunt.' Of course, this could just be the software industry's attempt at outdoing the RIAA and MPAA."

4 of 345 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Running as admin is fun by dov_0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Far out. I'll slap the next person who tells me Unix is hard to use, if that's Microsoft's idea of user-friendliness.

    From someone who runs a PC repair business, XP makes Unix look like childs play... Man it even makes doing a Gentoo install look easy.

    Give me a nice clean bash terminal any day.

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    sudo mount --milk --sugar /cup/tea /mouth /etc/init.d/relax start
  2. Re:Please explain to me by Tom9729 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because boobytrapping your software would be the equivalent of having a robot shoot the person on the other side of the register when the silent alarm was triggered.

    Works great, but once it's triggered it doesn't differentiate between customers and criminals.

    Say there's a bug in your software that causes it to format the customer's computer because it mistakenly thought they were a criminal. That's a big "oops".

  3. Re:Nice by Crizp · · Score: 4, Interesting

    naninaniyo
    anatanobakayo
    urusaiyo

    Sorry. I have no idea what I'm doing.

  4. Downloading is wrong? by nurb432 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tell that to SourceForge.

    If these people are caught with ties to any industry the FTC needs to come down on them, hard.

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    ---- Booth was a patriot ----