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Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Wed Aug 19 11:39:08 2009
Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site
by Elinor Mills
August 18, 2009
www.cnet.com
Spammers are hoping to rouse Obama critics to launch a cyber protest and
to download malware onto their PCs in the process.
New spam is circulating that supposedly offers a way for people to use
their computers to launch a denial-of-service attack on the Web site of
President Obama, researchers said on Tuesday.
The e-mail message says: "If You dont like Obama come here, you can help
to ddos his site with your installs."
The e-mail then provides a link to a Web site where visitors are offered
money for installing the supposed denial-of-service (DoS) software,
according to a blog posting on the site of e-mail security provider
Proofpoint.
The spam site also tells visitors to come back and get updated versions
of the purported denial of service software if their antivirus program
is detecting it as malware and disabling it.
It's not clear whether the software does turn the computer into a DoS
attacking zombie, or what it does, if anything. But it would be crazy to
expose your computer like that, regardless of your political leanings.
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