full-disclosure - Re: pnp worm unknown variant

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Date: Wed Aug 17 00:56:51 2005
From: jasonc at science.org (Jason Coombs)
Subject: Re: pnp worm unknown variant - post infection
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Morning Wood wrote:
 >> Does it install child pornographic malware
> wtf would you ask that anyway?

Because people are being prosecuted for possession of child pornography 
based on what is found on their hard drives and in their IE history, and 
most of these people are being convicted despite the fact that their 
computers are infected with porn-related spyware and adware. In nearly 
every case law enforcement fails to even check for these infections.

Interesting thing with this worm is the extent to which is may have just 
planted a large amount of porn on a large number of computers.

Not that this hasn't already been happening as a result of porn-related 
spyware and adware, but is this the first porn worm?

Cheers,

Jason Coombs
jasonc@...ence.org