Is a picture worth a thousand worms ?

A number of web sites these days offer free downloads of celebrities and your favourite singers, actors and even football players. Infact many reputed sites display on their opening pages a list of pictures that are frequently searched. Its not surprising then Natalie Portman or Jessica Lynch figure way up there among searches for photos for Neverland Ranch. It really does not matter where these pictures came from for the ardent pic-hunter.

Then I came across the recent news article on how pictures of the Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic - who recently died in his cell - posted on a website contained Trojans. It then dawned on me then the kind of havoc I could possibly make if I had a slightly evil bent of mind. All that was required was for me to work on to creating my own site work on it to make it popular enough on the search engines when people searched for a site that provided Free pictures. Nothing that I mentioned so far is unrealistic or unachievable. Search the web and it should not be difficult to find an appropriate tool to author and modify a existing picture to include a malicious script. I am just one step away from putting into practice my diabolic plan. All that’s required is to put it on my frequently visited web site and wait for the kill.

If not today, if not tomorrow surely someday a unsuspecting person is going to click on the picture on my site and Voila! The rest could well be history for this visitor. A mail that claimed that Milosevic did not die and was murdered would have done enough to evince enough interest to get readers to such a malicious site. Which ever the modus operandi, the end is predictably the same.

It will cost you a lot of money and probably I would have stolen much of your personal information to cause you enough damage. So before you download that next picture of Posh Spice or Princess Diana ask yourself Is a picture worth a thousand worms??