Police detectives have agreed to look into how a computer hacker has taken over a family's computer and jammed it with thousands of gay porn images, the Northern Echo reported April 29.
The Taggart family isn't just bothered by the gay porn images put into their computer, they fear the as-yet-unidentified hacker is using their computer to access more gay porn, the newspaper said.
Police confiscated the computer after 3,717 gay porn images were deleted - but discovered they were replaced "almost immediately" with 4,500 more, the Echo said.
It's not that the images were at all illegal - they weren't - but cramming them onto a computer its owners didn't want crammed with such images is something else entirely. And investigators think the hacker did the job on the Taggart computer by way of a Trojan horse program.
Last week, another Briton was exonerated of child porn charges after prosecutors agreed with investigators that a Trojan horse was the likely culprit in putting fourteen child porn images on a man's computer without him knowing they were there.
"We still don't know exactly what is on there," John Taggert told the Echo. "I put the 3,700 images in the recycling bin and suddenly another 4,500-and-odd appear. They may have been in my computer all the time."
