This is not news. Anyone at anytime can write a malicious program that will do bad things to your computer if you are stupid enough to run it and enter the admin password. Would you stop driving after reading that someone had driven through roadblocks and past signs that said "bridge out" and had fallen into the river? No you would just sigh "dumbass" and move on. This trojan is just like that. The porn angle just makes it even more dumbass.
>Yes, and that is what you have to do with legitimate items too ... >there-in lies the problem. If it is well written most people will >never suspect foul play until they discover it accomplished nothing and >even then they may only be puzzled and not realize what happened. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
