Piracy Release Group Has Been Spying on Downloaders For 9 Months

no_1_dave said:
Seems a release group has been infecting peoples machines
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It's not a release group infecting peoples machines.

Sounds more like the software vendor or the FBI gathering evidence.

According to the original findings, the "virus" collected the following:

IP address
Hard disk serial number
Windows username

then sent them to a php mailer script which has now been removed.

What's weird is the both the primary addresses were "@yahoo.it" and the webhost the php script was hosted on was Italian too.
 
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I stopped pirating software back in the days of Nero v9 (man what a pile of poop that was). There just isn't any reason to these days, plus nearly everything contains a virus (and I don't mean a false positive keygen)

There are hundreds of freeware products which are really good, and if you are one of those people that NEED something like Photoshop or something £100+ then you could justify the price to buy it.

Oh, and pirate software never activates or updates properly
 
Be interesting to see what comes of this, people getting bills for the software they've downloaded or summoned to court etc.

Not downloaded cracked software in years as these days most of the stuff I use comes with a trial version and if I really like it I'll just buy it as software prices have come down apart from the big stuff like photoshop.
 
Giggz said:
Be interesting to see what comes of this, people getting bills for the software they've downloaded or summoned to court etc.

Not downloaded cracked software in years as these days most of the stuff I use comes with a trial version and if I really like it I'll just buy it as software prices have come down apart from the big stuff like photoshop.
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Yes, it's finally dawned on them that selling a million copies at £1 makes more money than selling none at £100 :D
 
Broken Hope said:
It only affects people pirating software so who cares.
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That's like saying all people who drive 80mph on the motorway deserves to have an accident. :eek:

I don't pirate software, for the record, but it's not a good thing.

Interesting article. Looks like the Warez group Megahurtz were obtaining evidence to me, either for software companies or future blackmail purposes.
 
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