Misleading grammar infects healdine writers

It's certainly scary to open the morning paper and read the following headline:

(via Telegram eEdition. The article text is here.)

What's telling about the headline is the choice of the present tense for the verb infect. It means that there are computer viruses that are actively connecting PCs to child porn sites.
The trouble is that this is not what the story is about. The story is about several things that have been conflated into the suggestion of a current and severe threat to your computer RIGHT NOW!
The article mentions the case of Michael Fiola, whose computer was infected when someone else used his system and infected with a virus that downloads child porn. Scary, right? It's a story from a year ago. It's also a story about someone who hadn't installed any security updates and, somehow allowed a pedophile to use his computer - Lax security leads to child-porn charges.

Pedophiles can tap viruses in several ways. The simplest is to force someone else’s computer to surf child porn sites, collecting images along the way. Or a computer can be made into a warehouse for pictures and videos that can be viewed remotely when the PC is online.
[Emphasis mine.]

There are more stories about the prevalence of computer viruses:

At any moment, about 20 million of the estimated 1 billion Internet-connected PCs worldwide are infected with viruses that could give hackers full control, according to security software maker F-Secure Corp. Computers often get infected when people open e-mail attachments from unknown sources or visit a malicious Web page.

But, opening an email attachment or visiting a web page was not how the child porn got onto these systems. It happened because an unauthorized user had access to an unsecured system and did a bad thing.
If you leave your keys in your car and someone drives it into child's birthday party, yes, the bad guy is still the bad guy, but few sane people would say that cars are evil because someone could steal it and drive it into a kid's birthday party.
By the way, the sites that report on the major Internet and computer security threats shows that there's nothing on their radar about a rampage of viruses that are infecting PCs and download child pornography. National Cyber Alert System, McAfee Threat Center, Symantec, Trend Micro, and the one cited in the article, F-Secure.