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Virus catches child porn offender

The other day Sarah told me she was a bit disturbed because she'd received an email from the FBI saying they'd found that she had visited illegal web sites. Having received many of these fake emails (usually purporting to be from the CIA, interestingly) my reaction was "please tell me you didn't open the file that comes with the email." Fortunately, my wife is saavy enough not to open weird attachments, so all was well, and I told her about the source of these emails: a virus, worm, or scam, take your pick.

But apparently a 20 year old in Germany had a guilty conscience, and when he received a similar email, his first reaction was to turn himself in. Police charged him on discovering child pornography on his computer.

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