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Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-03-18

A pair of coders nurturing a deep antipathy for software pirates set off a controversy Thursday when they went public with a months-old experiment to trick file sharers into running a Trojan horse program that chastises users and reports back to a central server.

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Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous
-This is most certainly malware and should

-be treated as an active virus hoax.

Its not self replicating so it a trojan. It doesn't cause any damage, so its not malware. Your point is flawed. Obviously they already intended to download UT2k already, or some other software that is obviously not ...

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