A pair of coders nurturing a deep antipathy for software pirates set off a controversy Thursday when they went public with a months-old experiment to trick file sharers into running a Trojan horse program that chastises users and reports back to a central server.
SecurityFocus HOME News: Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers
According the the article, the malware has been known to spread as key generators and cracks for Unreal Tournament 2004, Pinnacle Studio 9, Norton Antivirus, TurboTax, and as a copy of the leaked Microsoft source code. It doesn’t do anything overly harmful, but if you run it, your ip and country will be logged at a public website which seems to be down at the moment due to the story being posted on Slashdot.