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Computer Virus that frames YOU for Child Porn!
One of the latest computer viruses has been created by Child Pornographers, the mission, to frame YOU!
Child pornographers have recently started a new virus that they send into your computer, via email attachments, pop-ups etc and they can make it appear as though you are surfing child pornography! Oh and one more thing, you may not even know until the police is knocking at your door!
Innocent people have had their reputations lost in this “scam”. In such accusations they get fired from their job, receive hate mail, have their tires slashed and become out-casted in their own neighbourhoods. People have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to prove their innocence. But not everyone has this much money… In one case, a virus changed the home page on a man’s web browser to display child porn, a discovery made by his seven-year-old daughter. The man spent more than a week in jail and three months in a halfway house, and lost custody of his daughter.
The motivation behind these pornographers doing this, is so that they can say that they also had a virus… “It wasn’t me” or the “Dog ate my homework” type of mentality… Police Departments are not being very lenient on people with the reason of a virus, because sometimes it was you or the dog really did eat the homework and there is no way to determine otherwise.
This could happen to anyone. What can be done to prevent it? Have some filtering methods in place. A few months ago, I would have said that it’s great for when you have kids, but with these types of scams out there, it is a better idea for everyone to have.
With PurePages Internet, your Internet itself is filtered, there are no extra software’s to upload. If something like this happened, you would not be able to access these sites because of our filtering systems. It’s a winning solution.
Serial murders online.
This past week, my brother told me about a 5th Estate episode he watched about online suicides…. that is one way to look at it. I watched this video today, and as they put it in the video, it can also be viewed as online serial murders. I just watched this about 15 minutes ago, and I have found it so disturbing, that I am not even really sure where to start… all I can think about is my children, and that this is what they will be exposed to in another 10 years, except by then, it will probably be something worse… wow!
This case, is about a very promising first year university student, Nadia Kajouji. She started her first year with a very good start, however a little while into the term, she ended up pregnant had a miscarriage and was depressed…. this was the beginning of the end. Because of her depression she had insomnia, at the beginning she was begging counselors and friends for help…. the help never came. After months of struggling for support… She found some support online. She searched about suicide online. Methods; what was effective and what was not, for statistics… suicide was something she thought about, and made an informed decision. However, her decision was influenced. Influenced in a way that no one knew about until it was too late. Over the months she had become mentally, socially and emotionally withdrawn so the people around her did not know that she was being tied into a suicidal world online.
After being on so many suicidal sites and chats online, she became friends with a 20-25 year old woman, who was also suicidal. Her screen name was “Li Dao” (later it was also found that this person also had screen names “falcon girl” and “Cami-D”) Li Dao, was a caring nurse who was in similar age, who also wanted to commit suicide, she was warm towards Nadia, often referring to her as “Hun”. Li Dao, was not only in contact with Nadia, but with an approx 500 others over a term of 5 years. Not all these people comitted suicide, but a known 5 have, and probably many unknown cases as well. Li Dao, encouraged suicide by hanging, going to the extent of telling these teens and young adults exactly what kind or rope to buy from their local Home Depot. Li Dao encouraged them to hang themselves in front of the web cam, telling them that they could do it together in front of their web cams, so they will not be scared and alone.
The reality: Li Dao, Falcon girl and Cami-D, were the same person. Not a 20-25 year old nurse that was depressed… but rather a 46 year old “family man” and a practicing nurse that had 2 daughters also about 20 years old. He was not depressed and had no intention of committing suicide at the same time as the others. He enjoyed watching them do it.
Someone from the UK, had been trying to follow Li Dao, and had tried submitting her information to several police departments in the UK and USA. No one wanted the info… not because it was false, but because Internet crimes are difficult to handle. This lady finally had some luck in Minnesota, where “Li Dao” resided they took the case and did some research, the police had spoken to him and of course he denied everything. He went to emergency and admitted that he aided other people online to commit suicide, the police after almost 2 years, have not pressed charges or arrested him.
He is still online. Perhaps under another name, perhaps not. Nadia, she was found in Rideau river 6 weeks after she jumped.
This is just one story about online predators. There are many. Beware, be careful, teach your kids, monitor what they do and who they talk to… and in a situation like this, talk to them. In this case, Nadia did not want to talk to her parents… have someone else talk to them, a girlfriend of yours… do whatever you can to find out what is happening…
After watching the nightly news, many of us think that the world is a cruel place, the online world can be even worse!
RIP Nadia Kajouji 1989-2008.
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