Finally, A Useful Virus

By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Okay, it might not really be useful, but, I think it was helpful in at least one case. A Child porn offender in Germany turned himself in when he received a version of the sober worm that said he was under investigation.

An alleged child porn offender in Germany turned himself in to the police after mistaking an e-mail he received from a computer worm for an official warning that he was under investigation, authorities said on Tuesday.

“It just goes to show that computer worms aren’t always destructive,” said a spokesman for police in the western city of Paderborn. “Here it helped us to uncover a crime which would otherwise probably have gone undetected.” Source: News.com.

We Say: All right, let’s see you virus writers do some more good. Maybe someone could create a virus that makes politicians admit wrong doing, or, better yet, catch people cheating on their spouses, hehe. “I am a private detective and your spouse just hired me to……”