I'm Panicking Right Now

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Is it a criminal offense to accidently open up a spam email onto a child porn website? I swear, I just got a spam email and accidentally clicked into it. I just don't want to be charged for it; it's now going to be on my search files, and I swear, it was an accident. The site also freaked me out big time, I can't believe people can do such things.

Calm down, you're okay. Even if for some unknown reason your computer was seized by the government, it wouldn't mean anything. If you were into kiddie porn, there would be tons of hits. They know how these things are linked, you sometimes hit one on accident. As long as you don't accidently do it another hundred times or so, no big deal.
Nobody's going to come after you.

Actually, considering your age, it's probably not even illegal.... but still.

Tools, Internet Options, exlcude, exclude everything, check on the box, click ok, so you can delete the search history and don´t need to remember about it.

You've been spammed. If you go off to the sites in question, you might have something to worry about, but I think you're ok.

Also clear your cache, that clears away the logs that keep track of where you've been. I'd also recommended scanning your computer for viruses considering the site.

why open spam email to begin with

Dont worry, if they could track and arrest anyone who ever saw CP, even when they didnt want to, then 4chan would be deserted!

True... y?

Forward the email to the FBI. They have an entire website set up for reporting kiddie porn sites. I'd give you the link but I don't know it off the top of my head and I'm too lazy to look it up.

As for people telling this kid to erase his internet history and cache, that doesn't do anything. All it does is erase any evidence on his computer that he's been to that site. However, his entire internet history is retained on his ISP's servers (everything from sites visited to connections made to files downloaded, and it gives the exact time, date, and file name for everything) for years and a log of his visit would have been kept on the kiddie porn site's servers as well. It's my impression that what typically happens is that the feds track down the servers of these kiddie porn sites, raid the building they're being run from, seize the servers, collect the IP addresses of everyone who accessed the site, send out warrants for internet histories to the ISPs of those IP addresses, and then begin arresting who they can.

ThisUserNameIsTaken is right report the site.... also his right that clearing the history wont do anything.... dont you think the guys who actually look at that stuff do that.... they are still arrested... the only thing that will do is making sure that no one who might use your computer enters the site in an accident....

I heard of this, that scares me a bit because of privacy reasons... How long are those logs kept anyway?

I havent done anything wrong, that concept just dosent sound that nice to me, especially if anyone can just see these logs (who work at the ISP)... And what if the ISP's servers get hacked and the hacker downloads my whole internet history... Some URLs even have usernames and passwords in them!

I don't know how long they're kept, but it's for quite a long time. Every server does it though (websites, IM clients, ISPs, xbox live, etc. even some routers keep logs by default though those are very short lived unless you have the router forward the logs in emails). For example, IM servers (AOL, YIM, MSN, etc) typically keep logs of every conversation for five years. I wouldn't worry too much about your privacy being violated though. Since these logs record ALL of your internet activity there is an ocean of text to dive through the find anything interesting. Most of it is ads downloaded, virus definitions, connections made to multiple servers for images, and things of that nature. And ISPs have strict policies about not giving away that information unless they're hit with a warrant. I also doubt that a hacker would bother hacking an ISP for the logs they keep. Way too much crap to wade through for far too little useful information (not to mention we'd be talking about terabytes of information here). If a hacker is good enough to hack an ISP's logs they're probably going to go after something like credit card and banking companies instead.

scary

So all the IM conversations I have done over MSN, AIM etc. are all logged?

A bit unsettling I think.

I guess that's why some people use things like Tor then?

[quote="ThisUserNameIsTaken"]Forward the email to the FBI. They have an entire website set up for reporting kiddie porn sites. I'd give you the link but I don't know it off the top of my head and I'm too lazy to look it up. [/quote]


not meaning this offensivly but its not the fbi she wants is the IPA (interneting policing agency.) they deal wiv child porn sites so if u have the link send it to them.

http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/operati ... -taskforce

http://www.iwf.org.uk/


these two sites may help u.

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