Virus: Obama Sex Video
Status: Real virus.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, September 2008]
Subject: Obama Sex Video!!! From: infonews@obama.com Sensation!!! United States Senator for Illinois Barack Obama in 2007 was travel to Ukraine and have sex action with many ukrainian girls! You may view this private porno in a flash video. Download and view now. Please send this news to your friends! Obama it's not right choice!!! |
Last updated: The virus lure message could arrive with any of the following subject lines:
- Obama is ponstar now
- Porno with Obama
- Sex Video with Obama
- Obama Sex Video
- Barack Obama Hardcore
- Barack Obama sex story with girl
- Obama private porno
- Barack Obama sex story with Ukrainian girl
Origins: E-mail
lures intended to trick users into downloading viruses onto their computers often falsely claim to offer video clips of celebrities engaging in sex acts or information about some important breaking political story or scandal, so conflating those two topics would seemingly create a very effective lure indeed. Such was the premise of a
Those who took the bait and clicked through on the message's link did get to view an
Mal/Hupig-D affects Windows-based computer platforms and can be detected/removed by most up-to-date anti-virus software.
Last updated: 14 September 2008
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