Thursday, February 13, 2003
I learned an important lesson yesterday morning. Stay well clear of so called "warez" sites.After hunting all over the web for a usable MacOS hardfile, then resorting to KazaaLite, and all to no avail, I decided to try a dedicated warez search engine I know of. I know, it's naughty, but there you go.
Ever wondered where those sites get their files from? Let me tell you, it's not all cracked demos and security disabled copies of original disks. They're also getting their files directly from the pcs of users like you and me. How do I know this? On entering one of the sites, my virus checker went apeshit, screaming an alert at me. The site had uploaded a trojan called Download.Small onto my system. I didn't click on anything, download anything, or do anything other than enter the site, and "Bam!" I'm infected with a trojan that would, if I hadn't removed it immediately, have allowed hackers who're no-doubt attached to that site access to my pc.
Bastards!!!
Steve 3:59 AM [+]
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