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Obama Sex Video? No, but You'll Get a Virus
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by Jordan Yerman | September 11, 2008 at 05:27 am
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Yeah, your BS-meter went into the red as soon as you read "Obama sex video", but people believe this stuff, and so viruses spread.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't a terrorist...or a porn star.
A malicious spam e-mail is spreading that claims to have a link to a sex video of Obama but is instead spyware that steals sensitive data from the computer, security firm Sophos warned on Wednesday.
The subject line says "Obama sex video!!!" and the e-mail appears to come from "infonews@obama.com, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, says on his blog.
Is it the work of the Republicans? Probably not; it has the trademark bad grammar and excessive punctuation of traditional phishing attempts, many of which originate outside English-speaking countries.
Both McCain and Obama have Senate careers... if either of them were caught knocking boots on camera, it'd have been on Youtube a long, long time ago, and you'd have watched it and then denied doing so.
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at 05:42 on September 11th, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff:).
at 05:45 on September 11th, 2008
Jordan, I bet the hits are through the roof.
at 06:04 on September 11th, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Now that should get many computers infected.
at 10:20 on September 11th, 2008
Ew, I would not want to see that tape anyway, so that is one computer virus I won't have to worry about.
at 10:21 on September 11th, 2008
This ruined my day. Is it too much to ask just to get a /real/ obama sex tape in your email first thing in the morning?
at 10:23 on September 11th, 2008
This is really gross - who would even want to see that!?
at 12:18 on September 11th, 2008
Sounds like a double dirty trick to me, and not from the McCain side either.
at 12:57 on September 11th, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 13:52 on September 11th, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.