Posts Tagged ‘virus’

Virus Threatened to Kill File-Sharers, Creator Arrested for Copyright Infringement

The author of a bizarre virus which threatened to kill file-sharers has been arrested in Japan. Has he been arrested for making death threats? No! For writing the virus? No! This is the 21st century. He’s been arrested for copyright infringement, of course.

Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers

A strange virus which taunts file-sharers and threatens to report them to the police and even kill them, is being distributed on the Winny network.

Anti-Piracy Trojan

Trojan/Erazer-A is a new trojan that spreads through P2P networks. Apart from infecting your pc with malware and disabling anti-virus applications, it also actively deletes music, video’s and pictures from “shared folders’, used by p2p applications.