WARNING! What EVERY Internet User Needs To Know
Right now, you could be involved in in the sale and distribution of
child pornography and not know it. This is because two things
you're familiar with - computer viruses and spam - are being used
by criminals to involve you in their illegal activities.
It's not surprising to anyone with an e-mail account to learn that
spam has reached epidemic proportions. In fact, it's been
reported that more spam was intercepted in July, 2003 than in all
of 2002 combined, and accounts for 50% of all e-mail received!
The number of virus and virus-like attacks have also increased
dramatically. On average, they are present in about one in 166
e-mails. (Source: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-5058168.html)
So, what does this spam epidemic and the rise in e-mail delivered
viruses have to do with child pornography?
In this scam, Trojan horse attacks are the culprits. If you don't
know EXACTLY what a Trojan horse, you are extremely
vulnerable. Read a simple and concise explanation here:
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/security rojan.html
These Trojan horse programs, delivered and embedded into
thousands of home and business computers via spam e-mail, then
execute their programs to literally hijack the PC's in order to
remotely relay ads for pornographic web sites.
Since the pornographic images are not actually written to the
hard drive, the owner of the PC never even knows what's going
on...yet porn ads are being transmitted (spammed) to millions of
e-mail addresses from his/her IP address!
Porn is BIG business on the Net, raking in billions of dollars
annually, and one of the most effective way to advertise the
hundreds of thousands of porn sites is by spamming millions of
people every day.
Hijackers use the victims' computers to vastly increase the
scope of their spam campaigns.