And why can't these people be found through their IP address and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? What are they hoping to accomplish through their trojan? Have any of you personally had your whole hard drive wiped out because of said trojan/virus/worm/PUP? Thanks for your input.
127611
The makers of malware do not always have their purposes clear. There are some (who usually make worms, keyloggers, and trojans) that have intent to steal useful data, others (viruses and the like) which seem to only have intent to destroy data. It's usually very difficult to detect the creators of these things because of the propogation. If the creator of a worm walks up to an internet cafe, emails someone the worm, and just waits, eventually the worm will propogate by itself and you have an extremely difficult to trace situation.
147847
If your country has cyber laws book a complaint with the local police. Some email providers like hush mail who help people browse anonymously require such a complaint to trace the individual. It is really difficult to track IP's when he is hiding behind lot of proxy servers,esp when it is not in your country. You require the police to help you with that.
43334
The e-mail are being send through servers. There are programs that can trace back the e-mail sender, meaning that they can find the computers ip adress. There are more advanced programs that can even say the exact location (but cost a lot).\nBut this can't be done in general, because not all the e-mails come from a certain ip adress (i'm refering to those computers which connect to the internet by receiving a different ip automatically, though it's the same computer).
494769
It is illegal and they are settling cases out of court for thousands of dollars. They can trace a download to an ISP and the ISP has records of who was using that address at that time.
581257
THE REAL REASON WHY THEY DON'T DO IT.\n\n1.  If they created a virus to patch there system it would cause the internet to crawl because there are so many computers on it.  Plus with each computer check another computer that will get pretty big scanning.  \n2.  Some patches break applications at companies and they have to address this themselves.  They can pick and choise the patches that will not affect there systems.  \n3.  There was one virus that did this and it cause the internet to go to a craw we all complained about it. I am surprised everyone forgot.\n4.  I have to say this anti-viruse companys don't create viruses.  Thats like saying air bag companies cause car accadents and helment companies run bikers off the road or into other cars that is just plain stupid.  If they ever got caught they would have to pay millions if not billions in fines and lawsuits.
123047
Some e-mail viruses read the contents of the infected machines address book. They will use one of the addresses they find as the from address. It increases the chances that the victim will open, read, and act on the e-mail.  If the e-mail bounces, it get sent back to the bogus "From:" address, rather than the infected machine.\n\nSo it could be that someone has your address and the "To:" \naddress in their address book. Sometimes by putting 2 and 2 together it's possible to make a reasonable guess who it is.
18123
well I can tell you that the only thing that will happen is you will be told to ignore or block those email address'- the courts dont want to spend any time dealing with such trivial issues.  What you can do is look at the "headers" of the messages- if u see somewhere where it says recieved from, or originated from, that will give you the IP address (if they arent using proxies or some cloaking device to hide the actual IP)  \n\nThen you can go here: http://www.dnsstuff.com  and where it says WHOIS lookup, put in the IP address.  It should tell you the town that their service is located, but if they are using AOL it will prolly say something like "reston, Virginia" or something else because AOL IPs are ever changing, and they hide the IP location (actually they just show the IP of the AOL service)\n\nThere are other tools at that website like email lookup, domain lookup etc.  but you really wont be able to trace them too close without some kind of governmetal help (city,state or federal)\n\nMost likely the only thing you can do is to block their emails and ignore them.  The courts do not take internet things seriously because they cant really enforce anything, without a lot of work on their part- even then they cant always find the culprits, and if they are not in the US, they cant do anything about it.\n\nSeeing that you are in Malaysia, and most likely the offenders arent in your same location, jurisdiction would be the biggest problem, even if they could catch them.  I am sure they have other people they harrass, so if you ignore them and block them, they will just move on to someone else, because they are low life losers without anything better to do with their time.  These people have no real friends because they are complete losers and a waste of skin.  They are bitter because they know they are worthless, so they spread their misery on others!
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It worked!! I've spent almost all afternoon/evening trying to get this irritating thing off my laptop! But there still is one tray icon with the tooltip "Virus Alert". And a small popup that says Your Computer is Infected! Critical System. Did any of you face the same problem?
7998
No, they are trying to stop an avalanche.  They can stop a few thousand downloads maybe with lawsuits, but billions and billions of downloads more are going on right behind their backs.  They are idiots.  The P2P Genie is out of the bottle, and no way its going back in.
476332
if they are doing somehting against the law report them to the FBI.  That's what they are there for.  Send them all the info and they will investigate.
675477
Better believe it. You are way better off to assume that they are creeping around every corner. And kids are still posting way too much on the internet. It's not a good situation, but at least there are a few cops perusing the internet too. I love seeing them get busted!
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Simple. They are using a Private Network or User Privillage.\nSince you are not "one of them", they wont give u a security access like username and password to access the file. =D\n\nand also please read the sentence on the main page.\n\n....as long as it's legal, and uncopyrighted\n\n\n\n\nbut.... i tried the uploads. it works. LOL\nhttp://files.to/get/74222/22444/Water_lilies.jpg\n\n\nif you want to upload things to free servers i recommend you....\n\n\nwww.yousendit.com\n\n\n=D
255602
They didn't do anything to the internet.  They can only infect pc's not the whole damn internet.
460881
Doesnt matter, they are ALL equally adept at infecting your PC! You need to consider the fact that these files dont come from a site, they come from another members PC!
352908
It's a trojan running undetected in the background.  Nothing will get rid of it except formating your harddrive and reinstalling windows.  Don't attempt this without someone knowledgeable present or at least buy a book on it.
580368
That happened to me once. It didn't look like porn, but some searches that I never made ended up in my IE address history. I live alone so I know that I didn't make them. I would search for viruses, spy ware, whatever. There are a lot of people out there who have nothing better to do than to mess with your sh*t. Sometimes they succeed.
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LOL . . . I work with IT all the time.  Believe me, they can see ANYTHING you do on their network without exception.  If you don't want them to see it - don't do it on their network.\n\nI'm not just trying to stir paranoia either.  I have been on several employee appeal hearing boards where employees were terminated for internet activity.  They would come and plead their case to us and IT was there as well.  They wouldn't have to say a word.  They'd just plop down a HUGE stack of logs showing everything these people typed, sometimes keystroke by keystroke.