PORN IS A VIRUS….So how did the SoBig F virus spread so quickly? After all, everyone knows not to open unknown email attachments, right?
Maybe they do, but downloading unknown porn is a different matter altogether:
FBI investigators have now tracked down the source of the virus, known as SoBig F, to a porn website in Phoenix, Arizona. It was put on the net in the guise of a photograph posted in an adult ‘newsgroup’, a forum where users post messages and pictures. When people clicked to download the picture their computers unwittingly became infected and spread the virus which emailed copies of itself from their accounts.
Porn has always been the soft underbelly of the internet. And just think of the ammunition this is going to give to the Falwells and Robertsons of the world. It’s a hard sell these days to convince people that porn inevitably leads to lechery and a dissolute life, but now they can say that porn leads to the destruction of the internet. Hallelujah!
