Techie challenges spyware ruling
Someone visits a Web site that infects the PC and soon these pop-ups are happening one after another. (When it happens in rapid succession we call it a “porn storm.”). Turns out the classroom’s PC was running Windows 98 and had no anti-virus or anti-spyware on it. Anyway, this teacher, who was not very familiar with computers, asked other teachers what to do about it and she was told “not to worry about it.” She asked the school principal if she should turn the computer off and was told no. But after students told their parents about the pop-ups and the parents complained, Amero, who was four months pregnant at the time, was arrested and tried for four counts of risk or injury to a minor, which carried a maximum penalty of 10 years per count.
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