Again a `friendly` worm spreads aroudn the net like i Posted 3 days ago.
A new e-mail worm that's just beginning to wiggle its way across the Internet scours infected computers for image files containing child pornography, and alerts government agencies if any suspicious files are discovered. |
The alert e-mail contains an attached copy of one of the files that allegedly contain child pornography discovered during the worm's search of infected hard drives, and also identifies the porn possessor's e-mail address.
It's hard not to see the "Noped" worm as a sort of illegal social service, said Andrew Antipass, of the British security firm TechServ.
But Antipass is not necessarily convinced that the worm is able to reliably identify porn, and worries that the government may be inundated with false alerts.
"Noped is programmed to look for a list of files that contain offensive images which are available at certain websites and Usenet newsgroups," he said. "But if your image files happen to have been named with the same names as the porn files, the worm will identify you as possessing child pornography.
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Source: Wired
