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Death of Patrick Swayze exploited by hackers

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Uploaded by on Sep 15, 2009

Hackers have created malicious websites posing as news about the death of Dirty Dancing actor Patrick Swayze. More info at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/09/15/patrick-swayzes-death-exploited-s...

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  • @uniongrunt It is. It's absolutely EVERYWHERE, and while it scans it downloads random files onto your computer so it can keep popping up even if you exit out before the executable shows up.

  • I almost got hacked by that SAME WINDOWS EXPLOIT. It's not just on Patrick Swayze, either! This 'scan' downloaded files to my old XP laptop a while back, and I wound up being unable to remove half of the files. I managed to cripple the virus and keep it from running pop-ups over and over again, but the files could absolutely not be deleted. When I got my new Windows 7 laptop, it tried to get me AGAIN. This time I LOL'd - because it still looks like XP!

  • windows XP on a mac... lol

  • It kinda looks like the hackers are dumb, thinking that all computers run windows and never put a identification thing...

    look! it redirects you to another website then that website pops an alert!

  • i got my self in that fake ant-virus web site

    just by clicking on ad by mistake.

    i new it was fake so i turned of my pc.

  • isnt that just the little pest known as "personal antivirus"? it sure has spread rapidly

  • wow...how low can you go? Seriously, scareware should be removed from the internet permanently. how can Google allow these sites to be on the FRONT PAGE OF SEQARCHING>!

  • Idiots on these comments, also you can easily tell if a link is safe secured or not, good explanation on scareware for the noobs.

  • good

  • die lamer's

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