Porn Virus Blackmails Victims Over "Copyright Violation"

FishRep writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "A new type of malware infects PCs using file-share sites and publishes the user's net history on a public website before demanding a fee for its removal. The Japanese trojan virus installs itself on computers using a popular file-share service called Winni, used by up to 200m people. It targets those downloading illegal copies of games in the Hentai genre, an explicit form of anime. Website Yomiuri claims that 5,500 people have so far admitted to being infected. The virus, known as Kenzero, is being monitored by web security firm Trend Micro in Japan. Masquerading as a game installation screen, it requests the PC owner's personal details. It then takes screengrabs of the user's web history and publishes it online in their name, before sending an e-mail or pop-up screen demanding a credit card payment of 1,500 yen (£10) to 'settle your violation of copyright law' and remove the webpage."

Comments

Sounds like a plan

[BadAnalogyGuy]

So you call the cops, transfer the money, find out who is on the other end, have the law and credit card agencies come down hard on them.

Unless you're afraid of getting caught with porn...

Re:Sounds like a plan

[beakerMeep]

Says the AC :)

Re:Sounds like a plan

[not flu]

But everybody is a hypocrite so you'd get condemned for it all the same. On a subject like this you'd get condemned for not condemning it! Most people would at least make a token effort to condemn it publicly just for show, even if they fapped to the same schoolgirls getting tentacled themselves.

Re:Sounds like a plan

[Anonymous Coward]

>Everybody views porn or has viewed porn before, so nobody can condemn you for it without being a hypocrite themselves.

See, that's where you're mistaken. A hypocrite is someone who condemns you while thinking the same condemnation does not apply to them.

I have done many wrong things over the course of my life; my having done them doesn't make them any less wrong, nor does the fact that I've done them and condemn them make me a hypocrite. If you show your horrible scars to your kids and tell them "don't play with fire," does that make you a hypocrite? No, it makes you a responsible person. If I look back at the game I cracked and released to the scene but now say "Don't pirate games; it steals income from developers," it's because I've grown older and wiser and have a little more perspective now.

Re:Sounds like a plan

[martas]

first you'd have to be stupid enough to give your real name to a pirated porn game...