Hi again Scomelc

From what you have written it is clear that your PC had no protection and so was at the mercy of any (international) criminal gang, hacker or miscreant on the Internet. However, you have cleaned the viruses off your system and installed a firewall, just make sure that you configure your firewall for maximum protection.

As for planting porn on your PC, if you had asked me that question a month ago I would have said it was possible but not probable. But now I would say that any poorly or unprotected PC is capable of being used to plant on and/or distribute pornographic material.

Finally, a year or so ago I read that criminal gangs, mainly out of Russia, were blackmailing some PC owners, saying that unless they pay a sum of money to a certain account they will plant "illegal porn" on their PCs and then tell the police.

The story went on to say that some people paid up, at the time I did not take this story too seriously but now I know that it is not only possible but more likely to happen now than any other time in the past.



UK Bob