I accidentally downloaded child porn?
I
was on omegle and a random person gave me a link. I went to the link
and wasn't really paying attention. It was clear the content on the
website was porn, but I didn't notice it was child porn until it
finished downloading and started playing. I deleted the video and
reported the site online, but I realized I went back to the site to get
the URL and the site might have my IP address. Am I going to get into
trouble? Is there some way the police or FBI can track my computer even
though I deleted the video?
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more thing, is there some way i can delete it from my hard drive? While
i was looking for an answer to this about an hour ago, i read that it
is possible to get back the video even if it is deleted trhough your
hard drive or something similar to that. does a system restore
(restoring the computer to the state it was to the past, maybe a day
ago, deleteing any files after the save point) delete it from my hard
drive? i don't want any kind of CP on my computer because when I was
looking for an answer to this, i saw news articles about this and its
kind of freaking me out.
8 months ago
Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
Just delete it and report it to:
https://report.cybertip.org/index.htm;js…
Thats the link for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Then go on with life as usual and quit clicking links from random people and use some common sense.
Doing a HD wipe and reinstalling your OS wont do much other then waste an afternoon. Unless youre involved in a ring of kiddie porn or youre ip address keeps popping up on their radar then you really have nothing to worry about.
https://report.cybertip.org/index.htm;js…
Thats the link for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Then go on with life as usual and quit clicking links from random people and use some common sense.
Doing a HD wipe and reinstalling your OS wont do much other then waste an afternoon. Unless youre involved in a ring of kiddie porn or youre ip address keeps popping up on their radar then you really have nothing to worry about.
Source(s):
FBI when I reported some kiddie porn on an image site.
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Other Answers (2)
Of
course they can. It is easy to follow a link to child porn sites. But it
is not that easy to download anything. So the act of downloading does
put you at risk of prosecution. Learn from this, do NOT follow links
people send you blindly.
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