Net Virus Publishes Browsing History And Demands Payment For Removal Porn virus publishes web history of victims on the net

[nirvaman 1]

The news

This news talks about a new Japaneese trojan virus "kenzero" that istalls itself on victims computers using Winny "the file sharing service" used by up to 200 million people arround the world !

This new type of malware , infects the victims computer , then access his net history to publish it after that on a public website on the net !! wish it will end here , the virus after that offers to the victim a removal of his web history for a fee (about 10 Ł).

About 5500 persons have been infected by "kenzero" till now , and counting , they say that the virus target people who download hantai games through P2P !
So after stealing the victims web history data , the virus publishes it on a public website "registered to fictitious individual called Shoen Overns" ,then sends an email or opens a popup on the victim's computer to offer him a removal of his own "private" web history in exchange of paying 1500yen or 10Ł with credit card !

It seem to me , that this worm , is doing more benefit for copyrighted materials owners ,then to the virus owner , or the gang as they supposed !
If this trojan will use more file sharing services , like utorrent "i'll stop using it in case " , then it will be dramatic !!
To see your personal web history removed from the website , you need to pay by credit card !! it make me laugh , and people will pay using the credit card?!! that way , it won't be only your personal web history wich will be published , but your credit card and financial informations too .

Waiting for your reactions

[Rigaudon 0]

HAH! That's hilarious, target the people with no life and no girlfriend. Well, one thing I don't understand is if you wire money to them, shouldn't that account be able to be tracked?In any case, if this ever happened to ME certainly would not pay. For one, whose going to notice your specific information along with plenty of other no-lifes? For another, there's absolutely no guarantee that they'll remove it, and even if they do, you still have the worm, so when you do it again, it'll be back up.

[andresf91 0]

Got the solution for those people! If they use to Firefox, they can enable safe mode (Private Browsing), which means that you can surf the net as much as you can and it won't be saved anywhere. It's a new feature added to 3.1 I think, though it was called "pr0n mode" while beta testing

[networker 0]

If you never ever entered your real name on your computer thenmaybe you wouldn't have so much to worry about. I'd be more worried about a viruspassing on important data like passwords and such.

[Rigaudon 0]

Got the solution for those people! If they use to Firefox, they can enable safe mode (Private Browsing), which means that you can surf the net as much as you can and it won't be saved anywhere. It's a new feature added to 3.1 I think, though it was called "pr0n mode" while beta testing

That's kinda... impossible. Your browser has to download all the information on the HTML page and store it in a cache until you browse away and it's deleted, but it's still stored.

Well, anyways, if you don't want viruses, you can just run your browser in sandboxie, a sandbox program that prevents it from interacting with anything other than what it needs.