News Article: Obama Sex Video Serves Up Malware

[Ehtyar]

Emails are circulating attempting to fleece the reader into watching a hoax home-sex video, only to infect their PC with malware.

Cyber crooks are trying to cash in on fascination with the US presidential race by sending trick email promising a sex video starring candidate Barack Obama, says Sophos, a computer security firm.

Email recipients gullible enough to click on an enclosed link get to see a seemingly homemade sex video that doesn't feature the presidential contender but does secretly install malicious software on people's computers.

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[jgpaiva]

  Well, I'd say this isn't very original, just by checking my spam section in gmail, I could get a few of thses, but promising "britney spears sex", "angelina jolie nude" and even nude pictures of myself! 
Honestly, these days, I'm not even sure if someone who is stupid enough to open one of those emails from someone who he doesn't know should have a computer at all..

[Stoic Joker]

I'm not even sure if someone who is stupid enough to open one of those emails from someone who he doesn't know should have a computer at all..

-jgpaiva (September 14, 2008, 05:56 AM)

100% Correct! You can not protect people from themselves, and attempting to do so only forces the rest of us to suffer. The information super-highway (like the interstate highway) simply requires that one drives their carputer defensively.