Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Porn on your PC?

Pastor Richard Toh spoke about how easy porn can get into one's PC even when one is not looking for it. He said we would read our mails and an embarrassing image could appear on our screen before we got a chance to delete it.

Consider the case of Ms. Amero, who suffered a miscarriage and the shame of having her teaching license revoked because a malware caused a PC to show unbecoming images to a class of students. And oh, she has to pay a USD 100 fine. She originally faced 40 years in jail.

The IT Manager claimed the virus protection was updated weekly even though the product was discontinued by the developer 6 months before. It is this kind of people that brings shame to the profession.

Read more about the tragedy here.

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