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Computer security expert Richard M. Smith says that in the last month
network vandals (possibly linked to Russian organized crime) have found ways
to take over PCs with high-speed connections to the Internet and use them,
without their owners' knowledge, to send Web pages advertising pornographic
sites. Smith says that "people are sort of involved in the porno business
and don't even know it." Most PC owners don't know when their computers have
been hijacked and the hijacking apparently doesn't damage the computer or
disrupt its operation. Because so many different machines are hijacked to
perpetrate this scheme, there's no single computer that be shut down to end
the problem. Smith adds: "We're dealing with somebody here who is very
clever." (*The New York Times*, 11 Jul 2003; NewsScan Daily, 11 Jul 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/07/11/technology/11HACK.html
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:47:02 GMT
this was news two weeks ago.....
and what does it have to do with politics?
<cor@no-spam> wrote in message
news:3F1A428D.525093C7@no-spam
>
> __________
> Subject: Has your PC been hijacked to spread pornography?
>
> Computer security expert Richard M. Smith says that in the last month
> network vandals (possibly linked to Russian organized crime) have found
ways
> to take over PCs with high-speed connections to the Internet and use them,
> without their owners' knowledge, to send Web pages advertising
pornographic
> sites. Smith says that "people are sort of involved in the porno business
> and don't even know it." Most PC owners don't know when their computers
have
> been hijacked and the hijacking apparently doesn't damage the computer or
> disrupt its operation. Because so many different machines are hijacked to
> perpetrate this scheme, there's no single computer that be shut down to
end
> the problem. Smith adds: "We're dealing with somebody here who is very
> clever." (*The New York Times*, 11 Jul 2003; NewsScan Daily, 11 Jul 2003)
> http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/07/11/technology/11HACK.html
cor@no-spam wrote in message news:<3F1A428D.525093C7@no-spam>...
> __________
> Subject: Has your PC been hijacked to spread pornography?
No but I do have a problem with a user parroting news from unreliable
sources all over the newsgroups. Any chances of stopping that?
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"cardboard" <cardboard@no-spam> wrote in message
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> cor@no-spam wrote in message
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> > __________
> > Subject: Has your PC been hijacked to spread pornography?
>
>
> No but I do have a problem with a user parroting news from unreliable
> sources all over the newsgroups. Any chances of stopping that?
Actually, some of the Computer Trade magazines also carried the same
information. There might be a quibble or two, but the main thrust is
accurate.
cardboard wrote:
>
> cor@no-spam wrote in message news:<3F1A428D.525093C7@no-spam>...
> > __________
> > Subject: Has your PC been hijacked to spread pornography?
>
> No but I do have a problem with a user parroting news from unreliable
> sources all over the newsgroups. Any chances of stopping that?
you have cable, are you spreading child pornography?
Have you suspended the server services that come activated with
several versions of MS OS ?
You obviously post in newsgroups, that is a main source of harvested
emails.
Do you care?
