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Harry Potter and the worm of doom

Harry Potter and the worm of doom

A leading antivirus company warned Thursday that the Netsky worm was making a comeback on the coattails of fictional wizard Harry Potter.

Such spoofing is a popular “social engineering” technique to get recipients to open malicious files. Previous pests have disguised themselves as naked photos of actress Jennifer Lopez, match-making software and a memo from the recipient’s IT administrator.

Source: News.com

Comments

  1. shwaip
    shwaip woohoo...

    /me clicks on email labelled "Harry Potter Nude"
  2. Linc
    Linc
    shwaip wrote:
    woohoo...

    * shwaip clicks on email labelled "Harry Potter Nude"
    ;D;D
  3. GHoosdum
    GHoosdum
    shwaip wrote:
    woohoo...

    * shwaip clicks on email labelled "Harry Potter Nude"

    You are a very, very sick man. ;D
  4. shwaip
    shwaip and if only to reinforce that sentiment...


    here we have harry giving what he likes to call "The Worm of Doom" to a young woman...

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