Can't know the truth - feeling gobsmacked

I may be a cynic here, but I suspect Wifi bandits are the least of this young man's problems. I don't know anyone who had imagines of child abuse pop onto the computer out of no where - does anyone else? I remember Pete Townsend claiming he was only looking at it as "research". Gary Glitter/Paul Gadd is in court at the moment, denying various allegations of sexual abuse of girls. He has to admit to previously having images of child sexual abuse on his computer in the past, because he is already convicted of that. He's now saying he only looked at because he was "in a dark place" - that's ok then

I agree Iam64, I can't imagine any way he could have 'accidentally' downloaded pictures of child abuse.
There always seem to be implausible excuses from these sickening individuals.

It does seem odd.

Mind you my OH needed a new vice for his tool bench and typed in "vice" on his computer. Hmmm.

LOL Mishap, hopefully, he won't use that phrase on its own again. I had a similar experience when I googled for information about having hens/chickens free ranging in my garden. Needless to say, I quickly became more savvy about which phrases were safe to use.

I remember when DD's friend emailed pictures of her newborn baby which she had had made into a slideshow using some firm or other. When I opened the link I got a porn video instead! her MIL got the same, so someone had hijacked it.
We alerted her and she dealt with it immediately.
It was not child porn thank goodness, more 'obese' porn but a shock!

That's just so sick
Does make you wonder about protecting your own photos of children, grandchildren etc....

Yes, it was revolting. It does worry me when their photos are put on FB etc.
This, however, was in an email attachment - and we had Norton or something similar installed.
We have upped the security since.

I thought I'd give you an update.
The court case has happened, the guy was found not guilty of possessing the pictures as the jury accepted his defence that other people used the computer.
It was only a brief report in the paper so of course I don't know what evidence there was on each side.

But he was found guilty of harrassing a woman by setting up a facebook page in a false name and sending her distressing, sexually explicit messages.
(something DD and I had heard nothing about before this.)
He'll be sentenced after background reports.

I'm so glad that DD dumped him when she did and wasn't still being loyal to him when that information came out.

You must be highly relieved it's all over NittWitt, hideous situation for you both, and his poor victim.

Clearly there was much more going on than that which you were aware of.

Best wishes to you and your DD, x

Thank goodness your DD didn't stay with him.

"Someone else must have put them on" is what they all say that about the illegal images on their computers.

Operation "ore" several years ago caught all sort and status of people who had downloaded illegal images and were caught out by their credit card details on sites where they paid to view this stuff.

It's not want you want your childrens partners to do. I hope she stays away from him. A lucky escape I think Nitwitt