Spyware which redirects a user’s computer to a particular website is not uncommon, and may be quite lucrative. But can lead to jail.

Spyware which redirected users machines to a pornography site, in fact spyware which made user’s main page the pornography site, has lead to the arrest of a man in Korea. In addition to changing the user’s main page on their computer, the spyware also redirected the user’s computer to the pornography site whenever the user typed certain words into the address bar of their browser.

And the spyware also popped up pornography ads on the user’s machine every thirty minutes.

The perpetrator, a Mr. Chung, who had contracted with and was being paid by the porn site to spread the spyware, has been returned to prison for another ten months. He had previously spent eight months in prison for the same activity…

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