US soldiers pick up viruses from pirated porn
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES are not a new phenomenon for soldiers stranded for months in foreign countries, away from their families, who decide to play away from home. But one type of STD is definitely a recent development, and is becoming a virtual epidemic on US soldiers' laptops.
The Washington Post reports that pornographic DVDs being picked up by US soldiers in local souks (markets), often contain more than bargained for. A virtual motherlode of viruses lurk on the pirated DVDs, which then spread like wildfire as soldiers pass them around to friends.
The so called "Porno-Virus" is proving hard to tackle, and it isn’t just American soldiers falling victim to the CTDs (Cyber transmitted diseases). Army Reserve Capt. Michael Noonan, who advised an Iraqi army unit in 2006-07 told the Post that Iraqi soldiers were also porn mad and noted "my memory stick would be filthy with viruses every time I had to go and get documents from my counterpart or his section NCOs".
Just goes to show, a soldier has to be careful where he goes plugging his USB stick, because, whilst spreading democracy, who knows what else the army is spreading. µ
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Read the Washington Post Article again.

One (Green Beret?) soldier reports a problem with his memory stick.
There is NO lappy epidemic!
"guys who watched them on their laptops didn't seem to have problems with them"__ The DVD's referenced in this sentence, have only been identified as locally purchased; not porn; maybe Bollywoods.
The porn reference was presumed from virus-infected Iraqi soldiers' computers, not G.I. stock.

This "rash" inference stands as much as for argument as an assumption that every Captain Tommy Walker's John Entwistle is fit to revelry muster, because the British Army is not US.

You "undressed" this one up, a great deal.

If you want the Washington Post to rewrite it more to your story, they would probably oblige.

Toodles.

I don't know about that, Sylvie looks to be correctly interpreting the Post's article to me...but adding a little of that good old Inq flare in the process.
A dvd can't infect anything if like any sane person you disabled autorun for external drives (or hold shift I guess), and run viruskiller.
Someone should finally sue damn microsoft for releasing OS's with autorun enabled by default and not patching that, in the 2000's, that's just wilful assisting in a crime isn't it?