[SpaceAce]

I wonder if all the mockery in this thread is misguided attempts at humor or if that many of you really are ignorant of reality.

Not only is something like the original poster described plausible, it is inevitable. If you think such a program could not be wisespread enough or effective enough to be a problem then you are, sorry to say it again, ignorant. I have a great deal of experience with one of the more famous remote-exploit trojans of the internet age, known as BackOrifice, and I can tell you the security threat posed by computer trojans is very real.

So, go ahead and have your sophomoric fun, winking and poking each other and laughing about tinfoil hats and whatnot, but if you're half as smart as you think you are, you'll take this sort of threat seriously and work to protect yourself from it.

SpaceAce