Trojan Trap

 

Trojan Trap



     Priya was a middle class girl from a small town in Maharashtra. For her higher studies, she was               living in Mumbai in a one room apartment.

After college and coaching class, she used to spend her time in social networking and chatting. She did not bother to chat with unknown persons. For that she made use of her laptop as she didn't want to share her cell phone number with anybody. Once she got a friend request from an unknown person, Rahul Sharma (as per his profile). She was very much impressed by his attractive profile and accepted his request.

Instead of chatting on social networking site, He invited her to chat on a popular messenger where video chatting was easily possible. They both used to chat with each other daily 2-3 hours. Priya got addicted to chatting with Rahul with her webcam switched on. She kept her laptop and internet connection always on. As and when she got time, she used to ping Rahul. She told him too that whenever possible ping her up as her laptop and net used to be on. Rahul always used to praise her beauty and simplicity, which she liked and enjoyed. She wished many times to see him thru webcam but somehow he avoided always.

One fine morning, she received a link from Rahul, with a request to open the link to see his some special photographs. She clicked the link and had a look on his photos. Being very much impressed, she decided to meet him personally. While chatting with him, she asked him, "I think we should meet this Sunday at CCD near my apartment." "Sorry dear, this Sunday, it seems impossible as I will have to work on my new project." Rahul replied. "Ok, let’s make it next Sunday." Priya concluded.

Since that day, Rahul used to come online quite rarely. Priya used to wait eagerly for a single ping from him, keeping her laptop and net on, the whole day. She even noticed that her laptop processing became quite slow. For saving a file of few lines it took minutes.

A few months passed, Rahul completely stopped communicating her. Meanwhile, she completed her course and applied for a job in 2-3 companies. She got an interview call from one. She prepared well and appeared for the interview. The person, who interviewed her, was looking strangely at her. She ignored as she was quite happy that her interview was reasonably well. She was quite sure about getting that job. She waited for a week for joining call from that company but there was no reply. Then, she personally went to meet the PRO of the company. Upon enquiring, she came to know that she had not been selected. The PRO told her that, the company cannot employ a girl, who acted in porn films. Tremendously shocked she came back to her apartment. The words of that PRO were hammered on her mind. "You are smart, intelligent but we cannot give job to a girl who repeatedly seen on porn sites".

 

Her brain came to fall into pieces due to continuous thinking. She suspected Rahul. After searching on Google, her thoughts were confirmed. She searched and got a Cyber ​​Security Consultant’s contact number and decided to visit her.

 

The next day, she appeared to Cyber ​​Security Consultant’s office along with her laptop.  The consultant checked the laptop and chats details for nearly half an hour, using antivirus, anti spyware and other software and told her that Rahul had sent the link embedded with a Trojan besides his online album.

 

The Trojan is a hidden program like virus but more powerful.  It has even the capability of automatically turning your laptop's webcam on. Trojan is immediately detected by antivirus but there is no antivirus software installed on Priya’s laptop.

 

She realized her mistakes one by one. Video chatting with a completely unknown person Rahul, Keeping the laptop and net switched on the whole day, ignoring the fact that each of her activity in her one room apartment might have been watched and recorded, Slowing down the laptop's speed after clicking the link sent by him.

 

He might had captured and stored her photographs and online activities. Then morphed them using photo and video editor tools and created porn videos to upload on those sites. It was damn shocking for her.

 

She launched a complaint to city police cyber cell. Two years passed but there was no clue of the culprit. Seasoned cyber criminals usually take care of not revealing their actual identity and IP address.

 

So, Friends, be careful and cautious. Never chat with strangers. Do not open any links directly. Instead copy them and paste to URL. Always install an updated internet security antivirus on your computer, laptop and mobile phones.


©Kavita Datar

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