Trojan Deletes Your Porn, Music & Warez

E. Vigilant writes "The new Trojan/Erazor-A has an interesting twist. In addition to deleting or disabling various security products and competing malware, it deletes any porn, warez and music in your P2P directories. While some opine that this trojan might have good intentions, remarkably few things infect the text files this trojan also deletes. No one yet knows who wrote this or why."

Geeks unite!

[Anonymous Coward]

All I know is that this is a very important problem we have to fix!! Destroying our financial records and stealing our identity is one thing. But touch a geek's pr0n collection ------- this means WAR!

It's probably a lot like Christian games

[Anonymous Coward]

They're just trying to bridge the gap and establish a "me too" appeal to non-Christians, so they created a trojan virus to show that you can write malicious code if it does "good" things like deleting porn and illegally acquired software. While I applaud their attempt to reach out to the hardcore geek culture, I think the Christian computer world is best left to video games like the Left Behind RTS. I propose a new bracelet WWJC: What Would Jesus Code?

Nis

Seems obvious to me.

[Jerk City Troll]

Of course it would delete your porn! Trojan [trojancondoms.com] wants you to go out and have real sex.

It... deletes PR0N??!!

[Noryungi]

I feel a great disturbance in the Force... As if a millions Slashdot posters all cried out in anguish...

Re:Thank god!

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"Thank god! I use linux!"

I thought Linux supported porn by now.

0h n03z my pr0n h4s b33n st0l3d!!!11!

[Anonymous Coward]

The new Trojan/Erazor-A has an interesting twist. In addition to deleting or disabling various security products and competing malware, it deletes any porn, warez and music.

This thing could delete the Internet

As for the Who and the Why. I blame the RI/MP Ass's. of America.

Apple needs to jump on this quickly!

[dimer0]

... and make a new commercial!

[old guy is coughing, wheezing, ...]

[young guy] On a mac, you don't have to worry about losing your pr0n and warez!

[young asian chic to young guys right seductively takes leg and wraps it around young guys waist]

[cut to pic of imac]

The next headline on slashdot....

[TheOldSchooler]

Storage Space Mysteriously Triples on File Servers around the World.

THIS IS WAR!

[Progman3K]

First they came for my credit card data, since I did not have Visa, I said nothing.
Then they came phishing for my bank account info, since I did not have a bank account, I said nothing.
Then they came for my porn...

Re:Slashspin

[Gumph]

Gosh, I have plenty of MP3, AVI, MPEG, WMV, Gif, Zip graphic and video files ... that aren't porn, illegal music & warez.

Excuse me Sir, we've had some complaints from the other clientele, could you hand in your /. ID on your way out.

Aiming poorly?

[iogan]

The Windows Trojan/Erazer-A Trojan looks at default folders for downloading MP3, AVI, MPEG, WMV, Gif, Zip graphic and video files, and wipes anything it finds with these extensions in the target locations.
(...)
"The Erazer Trojan is a vigilante worthy of a Charles Bronson movie, taking the law into its own hands. However, it's perfectly possible for the Trojan to aim poorly and wipe out innocent files too," commented Graham Cluley of Sophos.

Aiming poorly? Yeah, if carpet bombing a country to hit a dart board is what you mean by aiming poorly...

Re:The next headline on slashdot....

[barefootgenius]

"Storage Space Mysteriously Triples on File Servers around the World." So true!

Re:Uhoh

[gEvil (beta)]

Don't worry if this thing deletes them. I've got them backed up for you.

Re:Finally!

[hal2814]

"Finally a threat that will make the average joe start to take computer security seriously!" Until a computer virus or trojan can come into your house, shave your eyebrows off while you're asleep, drink all your beer, and leave you with no toilet paper, the average joe will never take computer security seriously.

Re:Aiming poorly?

[meringuoid]

Aiming poorly? Yeah, if carpet bombing a country to hit a dart board is what you mean by aiming poorly...

Careful with such analogies. There'll be a bunch of loyal American patriots along in a minute to tell you how wrong you are, and that it's not aiming poorly, it's an enlightened foreign policy.

Re:Seems obvious to me.

[mobby_6kl]

Trojan wants you to go out and have real sex.

They're not the only ones...

Dear lord

[Rendo]

I felt a great disturbance from the Net, as if millions of gigs of porn suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly deleted.

Re:Where's the FUD now?

[A beautiful mind]

As soon as someone comes up with a good looking GUI for it.

"Oooh shiny!" [click] [click]

Re:the first 'christian' virus?

[Ohreally_factor]

Why the Christians, necessarily? A more likely culprit would be PETA, trying the protect all those cute fluffy kittens from the hand of a wrathful God [img69.exs.cx].

deleting pr0n!?!?!?!?!?

[AviLazar]

This is the last straw!!!! We have had it with you evil hax0rs!!!!!! Something must be done!!!!! THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THIS SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH!!!!

Not cool

[Lord_Dweomer]

There is an unwritten law that you do not touch a man's pr0n. Period. He could have slept with your wife and added pictures of her to his collection, and still, you do not touch his pr0n.

These people have gone too far. If I get infected by this I'm going straight to the FBI, this is too serious to joke about.

Re:Apple needs to jump on this quickly!

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"[young asian chic to young guys right seductively takes leg and wraps it around young guys waist]"

[young asian chic opens mouth to talk, unsupported audio codec message appears, young guy just shrubs]

The boss

[SurfSlade]

I fowarded the story to my boss,
Five min later he ask me for a full back-up of his PC

I wonder why.....

New Service

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Greetings, all.

I just wanted to offer my new backup service for all who of you who fear this trojan. Just contact me so we can arrange transfers. Please do not be wary of my generosity, for helping is its own reward.

Re:Finally!

[Salty Moran]

and everything in the My Documents folder.

Considering the people I know, I think you'd be better off deleting documents from the Desktop... :\

Re:Geeks unite!

[Salty Moran]

I've hired, well, captured and enslaved, 150 people who go over all the code...

So, basically, what you're saying here is that you're the President of Human Resources at EA Games?

Re:Thank god!

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"You are free to look at porn if you want to. Most dont, but you can."

Most Linux users don't look at porn? Didn't that all change when KDE came along and you didn't need both hands available?

Re:Altruism? I have my doubts...

[BaltikaTroika]

I pick avarice over sloppily executed altruism any day.

In related news, dictionary.com has suffered the slashdot effect after a massive spike in searches for the definitions of "avarice" and "altruism".

Re:The boss

[dohzer]

Because he realised that you've been sitting on your arse doing nothing but read /. posts for the last hour?

Add option #5

[Foobar of Borg]

5) Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell want to wipe out pr0n from the internet, so they assemble a team of computer experts and tell them, "Pr0n is the 5ux0rs! We need 1337 h@x0r5 to pwn their warez, w00t, w00t!"

Or, maybe not...

Re:Seems obvious to me.

[Tsen Wrath]

Wow, my harddrive has never had so much free space.

Where can I find a Linux version?

[WhiteWolf666]

Once again, this is Windows only.

Damn! Obviously, Linux isn't ready for the home user.

Add option #5

[Sigg3.net]

Not even that:

5) Trojan not only sentient, but self-sustainable and conventionally biased. Will take over the world.

Proof of Intelligent Design? You be the judge.

Re:Aiming poorly?

[computational super]

If you're not with us, you're against us, and that didn't sound "with us" enough for me. The air force will be preparing your neighborhood for a Haliburton contract in five minutes.

Re:Add option #5 ... unless ...

[WidescreenFreak]

Unless it also displays a dialog box stating that, "The Lord has decided that thou hast broken the following commandments: Thou Shalt Not Steal and Thou Shalt Not Have Naughty Thoughts. Your files have been deleted according to the rights granted to us by God as his Holy Warriors, and your screen saver is now made of publicity stills from The Passion of the Christ. Go with God."

Then, maybe so... :)

sorry ;)

[miruku]

6) profit!!

Re:Finally!

[lloydtesterman]

Thank goodness, it was just a virus. I though I had a drinking problem.

Re:the first 'christian' virus?

[tehcyder]

To some people Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint presentations are very important.

I don't think you're allowed to say that on slashdot are you?

No way, that would ever happen

[budword]

There is no way Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell would ever risk their own secret porn stash. The parent is clearly a troll.

Re:Add option #4

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

I swear to god, if my Kazaa/Bearshare/whatever'd copy of Julie Strain in the hottest soft core scene ever filmed [clublez.com] disappears, someone's gonna get hurt!

Re:the first 'christian' virus?

[autOmato]

mod parent up!

Done. Now what?

Re:No way, that would ever happen

[Anonymous Coward]

A mod point! A mod point! My kingdom for a mod point!

Re:Translation please..

[someone300]

Some of my text files seem to be infected with a pox of periods, an abscess of ampersands, or an eruption of exclamation marks

That's just perl

Re:Add option #4

[Trigun]

Send me a copy, and I'll be part of your distributed backup strategy!

Re:Add option #5

[Eradicator2k3]

Pr0n is the 5ux0rs! We need 1337 h@x0r5 to pwn their warez, w00t, w00t!"

You spelled "teh" and "there" wrong. Or did you mean "they're"?

sounds like an overly elaborate plan gone bust :)

[koroviev (begemot)]

..which makes you connect to P2P again/more often to download "da stuff" again i.e. helping the trojan spread, by increasing online time and P2P time. OR makes you go out and play. tsts. evil geniuses can be beneficial sometimes, when they miss something :)

Re:Add option #5

[Foobar of Borg]

You spelled "teh" and "there" wrong. Or did you mean "they're"?

You are right (*sniff*). I'm afraid I'm only 1336 (*sniff*)...

Re:Add option #5

[commodoresloat]

... and I, for one, welcome our new Trojan overlords!

Re:Add option #4

[mathmathrevolution]

No Kidding. I need to pirate a fresh copy of Norton Anti-Virus off some P2P service before I fall victim to such a Trojan.