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Paris Hilton virus attack
« on: Apr 30th, 2007, 8:11am » |
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I've found this article and think is really interesting for everyone!! 
Britney Spears and Paris Hilton have teamed up to destroy your computer. The two girls were the best of friends as they toured parties and clubs. But it would end quickly with Britney deciding that Paris wasn't a good fit as a party pal.
Now the two babe have been reunited - well, kinda. Both are the leads in the subject lines of email viruses, reports Us Weekly.
An email invites the user to view a wild Paris Hilton home video which then leads to a malicious attack. Hilton is once again the subject line of an attack that can lead to a virus according to Tech World. Security firm Sophos said the new attack is using a lure of images of celebrity heiress Paris Hilton in a state of undress in order to invade users' systems.
Tech World reports: Spammed email messages with subject lines such as "Hot pictures of Paris Hilton nude," and containing images of porn star Jenna Jameson, have begun circulating this week, Sophos said. The emails link to a website containing the Troj/Iffy-B trojan horse, which links to more malicious code exploiting the animated cursor bug patched by Microsoft this week.
The attack appears to have been carried out by the same group who exploited the cursor issue earlier this month with Britney Spears images as a lure, Sophos said.
Websense, a security firm, has said it has observed attacks achieve a success rate of up to 15 percent.
If you think your computer is under attack you can run antivirus softwares like Norton, Avast, AVG, etc. or you can check your hard disk with free online scanning like infectedornot.com, bitdefender, etc.
Goog luck!! 
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