"judith" wrote in message
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> Sue has raised the question in another thread :
> someone goes looking for warez software and downloads
> files named "XP-Hack.exe" but, unnknowingly are actually
> self-extracting files of kp images - guilty of creating kp images, or
> not?
>
> I have also wondered what does one do in these circumstances - a
> friend of mine said that he had received some near to the mark images
> in a spam e-mail for . - what should he do?
>
> I must admit I did not know: I told him to document exactly what had
> happened. Save all of the e-mail including headers - excluding the
> images. Outline describe what the images were in a document to be
> kept on his machine - and to delete the original. Also to send
> e-mails to a number of friends saying what had happened and "warning"
> them not to open the e-mail if they themselves received it; - not just
> as a warning but a further "documentation" of what had happened.
>
> Any views - better ideas?
Simply delete the offending images. Tempting though it is to become paranoid
about the jackboots on the stairs at dawn, the police really aren't going to
target you unless they see a pattern of downloading child ., and they
aren't likely to prosecute unless they see a folder on your computer where
you have carefully stored the images for future viewing.
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