New Japanese Virus: A Cruel Punishment for Porn Lovers

There is a new virus provided with the copy of Cross Days novel. When opened by a user, it gathers personal information, makes screen shots of the desktop and web history. The virus uploads all gathered information to a public site. To remove it a user needs to pay a fee.



Hackers got tired of traditional viruses that break the system down and have invented a new way of how to injure internet users. A new virus is intended to damage the reputation of porn lovers without prejudice to their computers. A new Trojan program called Kenzero is walking around “Winni” file-sharing service that is extremely popular in Japan. When user downloads a pornographic animated novel named Cross Days, it goes supplemented with Kenzero virus. Soon the whole world will know about his secret liking for such a spicy content.

Kenzero looks like a common installation program that asks user to specify his personal information like name, address, phone number, etc. While user carefully fills the installation form, Kenzero makes a few screen shots from user’s desktop, web history and recent file access. The whole data then is uploaded to a public website. After a little time an infected user receives an e-mail message saying that he has to make a payment of 1500 yen (£10) for removing the information from the website. This is a fee for violating the copyright law that protects unauthorized distribution of Cross Days.

“The websites those were privy to this scam have been banned and still don’t work. This was made to stop the spread of Kenzero. But there are about 5 500 users who were infected before the secure measures were assumed,” reports the representatives of Sankaku Complex anime portal. “It is still unknown how many people have paid for removing their personal information from the web, and whether that information was actually deleted”. The personal information gathered by a virus can be used in many ways, not only for one-time blackmail.

Kenzero has caused several scandals, revealing that erotic anime excites some sinless votaries of science and education. It became officially known that the Trojan has infected a head teacher of one middle school who tried to get Cross Days for his personal needs. The novel contains pornographic scenes with the underage schoolgirls. The fact that teacher likes to watch such scenes didn’t influence on his career and the teacher still holds his position.