Sophos reports that a British man has been cleared of storing child pornography on his computer after Trojans — malicious bits of code, a kind of virus — were found on his computer. The man had been arrested after 172 indecent pictures of children were found on his hard drive (the report doesn’t say how).… Read More »
More from the Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (No Really, I Mean It) Dept: Trojans are nasty bits of software and you’re not necessarily safe, even with a firewall and a virus checker (my previous post notwithstanding). According to a white paper by U.K.-based software vendor GFI, previously unknown Trojans can slip past your defences… Read More »
Further to my earlier posting about the dangers of folk hijacking your PC to send spam, here’s something from Reuters, appearing on Wired News that confirms the worst: Nearly 2,000 PCs with high-speed Internet connections have been hijacked by a stealth program and are being used to send ads for pornography. The stealth program is a… Read More »
Loose Wire — The Glitch-Fixer’s Guide: PC stuck again? Before you bother your computer guru, here’s a checklist that could help you to fix the problem yourself By Jeremy Wagstaff 17 April 2003 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review, (Copyright (c) 2003, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) I was halfway out of… Read More »