Japanese Man Behind P2P Virus Receives Suspended Sentence
Date : 2008 05 19 Category : Web News
Gets no jail time despite the fact that the virus deleted movie and music files on PCs using the Winny P2P file-sharing network.
Early last year I reported how a P2P trojan was making the rounds on Winny, the Japanese P2P file-sharing network. The trojan deleted a wide variety of file types and replaced them with popular comic book character images warning them not to use P2P.
Here's one of the Trojan images below. It reads:
"Ah, I see you are using P2P again.