This looks like the RIAA / MPAA have turned nasty :shock:
http://p2p.weblogsinc.com/2006/05/12/trojan-shows-vigilante-tendencies-towards-common-p2p-traded-file/Experts at SophosLabs, have discovered a Trojan horse that seeks out and wipes movies and MP3 music tracks that it believed infected computers are illegally distributing via file-sharing networks.
The Troj/Erazer-A Trojan horse scours folders used for peer-to-peer file-sharing peer-to-peer for AVI, MP3, MPEG, WMV, GIF, ZIP and other files. If files are found by the Trojan it wipes them, and plants a copy of itself in the folder using tempting names such as game.exe, goporn.exe, nero7.exe and officexpcrack.exe.
Is this a case of independent vigilante justice or could this be the latest anti-piracy scheme from the cartel?
To be fair, no one is accusing the RIAA, MPAA or any other official body of anything. I, however, do imagine that reading this in any press today gave a few record company execs a little bounce in their step.
I,m sure they are most pleased at this moronic attack, the so called "programmer" who wrote this can be proud he is helping destroy folks files for his jollies
