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July 22, 2008

[video] Hulk Smashed

This is the most entertaining spam message I've gotten in a long time...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pix <gnus@otveta.net>
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:16 AM
Subject: [video] Hulk Smashed


Paris Hilton Lectures On Dickens And Dostoevsky
http://www.wortmannweb.de/viewmovie.html

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Click on the link at your own risk. The page includes an embedded video that tries to install a file named codecinst.exe. Could be harmless, but I didn't follow through for a variety of reasons - one being that I was using a Mac browser that can't handle exe's.


Comments (3)
Jul 22, 2008

Garry Tan said...
Yup, looks like a spammer finally figured out that news passes through spam filters. Heh.

Jul 22, 2008

Garry Tan said...
PS, looks like you got a mention on Wired's blog. =)

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/computer-securi.html

Jul 22, 2008

Jon Price said...
sweet! thanks for helping get my name out there. now all I need to do is start the liberal dosing of affiliate links and AdSense ads and I'll be able to fund my gadget hobby. ;)

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