Summary of 'Framed for child porn — by a virus'.

The article I have read describes new type of a virus. Collectors of child pornography are storing pornography like that on innocent, unconscious users of computers. Afterwards they use those infected computers to keep and view it what lets them easily surf on WebPages with pornography. Victim of a virus like that find it out what was happening when the police knock to their door. The article describes story about Michael Fioli whose computer was attracted by one of those types of viruses. It completely damaged his life, he lost his job, friend and family. Many threats that he has received caused stress and problems with his health. Hopefully the virus has been detected and Fioli was acquitted. Frequently, there are many viruses made to change the home page to a page with child pornography. This story happened to one man who has been sentenced to more than a week in jail and three months in a halfway house, also he lost custody of his 7 year old daughter. Many prosecutors argues that those viruses are often used to defend real pedophiles in court. Experts demonstrate that it is still hard to run away from the penalty because even careful child porn collectors tend to leave incriminating e-mails, DVDs or other clues. This article shows also the story about Ned Solon. His computer had child pornography, most probably downloaded by the virus because it turned out that his antivirus program wasn’t working properly which means five banned films were downloaded. This way of Solon’s defend wasn’t enough for investigators and forensic experts who argued that with his computer everything was ok and he is a pedophile. Specific expertise that could make this case more clear are very expensive. Even if court is able to pay for it , judges are not likely to do that. After  this very hard process Solon has been sentenced for 6years in jail.

This article should be a warning for all people to be aware of viruses waiting for as everywhere on internet and show us the progress in cybercrimanility. We should care about quality of our antivirus programs because in another way our life can escalate into one of those stories. 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/framed-for-child-porn-by-a-virus/article1356380/