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Suspected virus author in Japan arrested for copyright infringement

article published on 24 January, 2008

Although Japan apparently doesn't have any laws to prosecuted virus authors under, that's not stopping officials in that country from going after a 24 year old graduate student suspected of spreading a virus through infected animation files. Ironically it's the same innocuous looking files used to spread the virus that are at the heart of the government's case - for copyright infringement. ... [ read the full article ]

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jutsu
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_ 		25. January 2008 @ 11:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Im sure its not 'cartoon' but 'anime'.

Cartoon for kids, anime for many ages. Some for kids, some for teenager, some for adult and so on.

Btw, what the virus do after infect your pc? Is it just an harmless virus?
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Jizmak
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_ 		27. January 2008 @ 01:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The virus allegedly created by Nakatsuji is believed to be of a kind that destroys data stored on the computer or deprives the computer of information. The police said Nakatsuji embedded the virus into the animated images so that it would infect the computers of people who downloaded them.
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DancingWD
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_ 		27. January 2008 @ 04:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I think I had a nasty encounter withit .. its not evemn a virus just a malware - its not spreading by its self :D you just have to download it and launch it yourself :D the irony that it also displays - dont pirate games r smth :D
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_ 		19. February 2008 @ 02:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Interesting.
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