Downloads of viruses, worms and Trojan horses
Pornographers use various types of downloads, viruses and Trojan
horses to get access to your computer or address book.
Trojan Horse
In computers, a Trojan horse is
a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside
apparently harmless programming or data in such a way that it can
get control and do its chosen form of damage, or release
pornographic material.
Spyware
In general, spyware is any technology
that aids in gathering information about a person or organization
without their knowledge. On the Internet, spyware is programming
that is put in someone's computer to secretly gather information
about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested
parties. Spyware can get in a computer as a software virus or as the
result of installing a new program. Some spyware programs have the
ability to monitor keystrokes, scan files on the hard drive, snoop
other applications, and collect email addresses, passwords, and
credit card numbers
Email Scams
Email is one of the most widely used
forms of sending pornographic material. Emails are becoming
increasing difficult to be stopped by anti-spam programs.
Emails sent by pornographers my include pictures or links to web
sites. Emails are also widely used for transmitting worms,
Trojan horses and viruses.
Bogus e-mails that try to trick
customers into giving out personal information on phony Web sites
are "the hottest and most troubling new scam on the Internet," says
Jana Monroe, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division
"Web spoofing" schemes have targeted customers of Best Buy, eBay and
PayPal, among others.
Spoofing Email
E-mail spoofing is the forgery of an
e-mail header so that the message appears to have originated from
someone or somewhere other than the actual source. Distributors of
spam often use spoofing in an attempt to get recipients to open, and
possibly even respond to, their solicitations.
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File sharing
File sharing is the public or
private sharing of computer data or space in a network with various
levels of access privilege. While files can easily be shared outside
a network (for example, simply by handing or mailing someone your
file on a diskette), the term file sharing almost always
means sharing files in a network, even if in a small local area
network. File sharing allows a number of people to use the same file
or file by some combination of being able to read or view it, write
to or modify it, copy it, or print it.
Peer-to-Peer Porn
Peer-to-Peer
Porn is a cooperative community for sharing, trading,
categorizing, and rating adult porn images. The
Peer-to-Peer Porn client program allows individual computers to act
as nodes in a robust, encrypted, serverless, emergent P2P network.
Nodes use this network to automatically search for porn, download
porn, and cache the highest ranked (according to user criteria) porn
media available.
Turn off
Peer-to-peer networking applications (such as Lime Wire, iMesh,
Morpheus, KaZaA) when not in use. These applications by default
share certain directories and run as resident services. When you
close the main window an icon remains on the taskbar and the program
is still sharing files. This can lead to a large volume of traffic
without the knowledge or consent of the user.
American teenagers going online to
find the latest pop hit by Britney Spears may be downloading more
than just a new tune.
File-swapping programs popularized
by Napster Inc. and other youth- oriented music services are
increasingly being used to exchange pornography, bypassing filters
set up by parents to block children's access to such images,
according to a congressional report released.
Children can be unwittingly
subjected to pornographic videos and photos when they are simply
looking for music, the report found. When searching for Britney
Spears videos on the file-swapping service Aimster, investigators
discovered that more than 70% of the resulting files contained
pornography, including images of underage sex and incest.
Often, however, the search for
pornography is intentional. A survey of file-swapping services using
the popular Gnutella technology found that six of the 10 most
commonly used search terms were related to pornography, including
"sex," "preteen" and "lolita." The word "porn" ranked second after
"Divx," a term usually used to locate pirated movies.
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