Who is Julie Amero?
By David S. Hartsock If you’ve been reading my newsletters for some time you may remember my recent anti-spyware tests. Often spyware and malware infections are thought of as annoyances or time consuming pains. Sometimes as avenues for identity theft. Have you ever given thought to losing your job because you are infected? How many of you think you’ve committed a crime by being infected? Can you be arrested because you are infected with spyware or malware? YES! It’s happened. It will happen again. Both of these horrible results happened, unjustly, to Julie Amero. Julie was a substitute teacher from Norwich, CT. The basic story is Julie, a computer illiterate person, did not have a network account at the school. When she arrived for word a teacher logged onto the computer in the classroom and instructed Julie NOT to turn it off. Two students used the computer, while Julie was out of the room, and visited a site that installed spyware. Julie returned to find a computer monitor populated
