Nude Celebrity E-Mail Infects More Than Curiosity
If you receive an e-mail (even from a friend) with an attachment promising video of starlets like Angelina Jolie or Natalie Portman wearing nothing but their pride, do yourself a favor and don't open it: It's a virus. Amazingly, 80 percent of reported computer infections last month came from this single source. The e-mails contain a message along the lines of, "Shocking video of nude Angelina Jolie," and carry a single attachment named either amazing.zip or shocking.zip. The attachment purports to contain the titillating peep show, but what it actually includes is a piece of malicious software called a rootkit.
A rootkit is basically computer code that installs itself in a protected area on your machine's hard drive. Once there, it's very difficult to detect and remove. Frighteningly, it can do just about anything it wants, including monitoring anything you type on your keyboard, rifling through your files for confidential information, participating in attacks against other computers and, of course, e-mailing itself to all of your contacts.
Sending your friends a virus is no way to win their admiration, but sending them a virus that proves you're the sort of person who would open an attachment like shocking.zip, well, that could do some serious long-term harm to your social status.
If you suspect your computer is infected with a virus, or you'd like to know how to spot the threats currently spreading themselves over the Internet, anti-virus software maker McAffe is a great resource. Granted, this a company trying to sell you a product, but its site offers free information on current viruses and free tools for removing some of the more sinister ones.
From Daily Mail
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A. J. Riddle said 1:54PM on 10-04-2007
I am thrilled to hear this. LOL! People who are interested in that sort of thing deserve to get viruses.
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Satish Bhardwaj said 3:08PM on 10-04-2007
I hope I've not acquired any viruses. For tunately I don't send many emails. So If I've any rootkit I'm not spreading any viruses.
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Poulenc said 3:15PM on 10-04-2007
Oh, pleeeese, Riddle--don't be such a vindictive prude! Sex and sexual imagery are a delightful part of life, you might want to notice.
As for viruses--make sure to take precautions, and have the necessary software installed.
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pwanless said 3:52PM on 10-04-2007
I don't see why people would need to open the extra attachments. First, if you want to see one of those girls nude, you can rent or buy just about any of their DVDs. And even if the DVDs are too much trouble, there are lots of websites that will show them nude. Of course, 90% of the time it is just their face photoshopped onto some other model's body, but that's probably what it would be anyway even if the attachments were exactly what they claimed.
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rad said 5:02PM on 10-04-2007
It's McAfee software, not Mcaffe
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ajm33771@aol.com said 4:46PM on 10-04-2007
DUH, really? Someone would try to pass off a (gasp) virus to the curious Internet Perv's looking at risque pic's of brainless celebrities? I am SHOCKED! geez it is very simple, do not open e-mails that has this crap attached to it. If you've seen nude pic's before, it is all the same. Some are fatter, skinnier, taller, shorter etc. By and by they are all the same DUH
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Scott said 7:21PM on 10-04-2007
There is a free anti spyware/virus/rootkit program downloadable at ewido.net, I've had it for almost a year(free of charge) and it works great. Still, opening e-mails with questionable downloads attached to them probably isn't the best idea.
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RINGLEADER OF THE WOLFPACK said 7:48PM on 10-04-2007
WHAT ABOUT THEM DAMN BOTS THAT KEEP POPIN ON ON OUR CHAT MESSENGERS..?
VIRUSE ARE THE MANY REASONS WHY PEOPLE WITH STUFF LIKE THIS LET OTHERS KNOW THE USER AND ITS PROFILES AND EMAILS ARE SO FAKE!!!!! WHY NOT SPEND MONEY ON PC WHEN YOU CAN GO TO THE STRIP CLUB AND NOT CATCH A SINGLE VIRUS JUST 4 WATCHING NUDE DANCES. SICK PEOPLE!!!
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Yvonne said 8:18PM on 10-04-2007
Looks like we need a condom for computers.
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BillieMae said 9:45PM on 10-04-2007
Wondering if that's why my shared computer with my husband is messing up??? Have to kill him.
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K S said 10:19PM on 10-04-2007
Maybe if these geek worms were found the public
could be allowed to slap them around. These are the type of geeks that were slapped around on the playground when they were young and feel power now that they can anonymously infect your
computer. Find out who they are slap them around good and the rest will be too scared to do it
themselves.
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John Ingalls said 10:25PM on 10-04-2007
I rather see these girl celebs in a supergirl outfit
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Jim said 10:52PM on 10-04-2007
I wear rubber gloves so i dont get infected
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dan said 12:00AM on 10-05-2007
nice talk Poulenc, some1 like J. Riddle needs you to tell 'em how to live a life. Hes RUDES
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larry gray said 3:20PM on 10-05-2007
does that make this a sexually transmitted disease? haha
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RINGLEADER OF THE WOLFPACK said 4:59PM on 10-05-2007
OH YEAH LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! A DIGITAL SEXUALLLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE ON THE PC. A VIRUSE OUTBREAK IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
I BET YALL 20 BUX IF YOU CATCH YOUR OWN HUBBIES SMACKING NUTS ON THE PC LOOKING AT PORN AND YOUR WIFEYS PLAYING WITH THEMSELVES LOOKING AT PORN...
20 BUX!!! THATS WHY I USE ANTIBACTERIAL SOAP AND ANTIBACTERIAL BODYWASHES BEFORE I TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE WHEN I use a PUBLIC PC...
20 BUCKS.
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manitoubear said 6:26PM on 10-05-2007
AOL offers a way to eliminate spam. It's called a Custom Sender List. Takes a while to put in all the addresses that you will accept mail from, but it's worth it. Click on "Settings", then "Spam Controls". Select "Sender Filter" then "Use Custom Sender List." You do have to remember to add new address with those you do business with and when friends change the E-Mail addresses. I get no spam.
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Melinda said 7:06PM on 10-05-2007
That's funny! A computer transmitted STD!
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Dennis said 8:47PM on 10-05-2007
Have had this computer for 10 months and have not had even 1 spam - except for aol
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