Symantec warns of bogus "Hillary Clinton video" spam
The Hillary Clinton election campaign is being exploited in a spam message that tries to trick users into downloading a Trojan to their desktops by pretending to offer a link to a video of a Hillary Clinton campaign speech. "It's the first time we've seen spam like this targeting Hillary Clinton," says Doug Bowers, Symantec's senior director of anti-abuse engineering, who says the spam message, still not seen in large volumes, was first spotted today.
The spam, which has the subject line "Hillary Clinton Video!!" offers users a link promising a video of the presidential candidate giving a speech. In reality, clicking on it would cause a Trojan to be downloaded to compromise the victim's machine for the purpose of sending more spam.
Just one more example of the endless harassment Clinton and her supporters must endure.
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I hate to say it
but I'm not surprised.
10, 9, 8, counting, 7 ....
... 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0:
Cue the "she did it herself" talking point.
Of course, the other effect will be to make users suspicious of all Hillary videos. Sigh. Maybe it's better to say nothing? What a situation.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Online harassment
This reminds me of the harassment feminist sites tend to be subject to. It's intense. Hackers take down sites and then cheer themselves on with chants of "pwned!"
@Lambert: That's exactly what I was thinking. When those bigots in NH chanted "Iron my shirt!" there were scores of OFB
who insisted she did it herself to "play the victim card." Anything that could possibly result in one not seeing Clinton as pure evil is a conspiracy on her part. Honestly, the (misogynistic) bigotry on display is unrivaled in its breadth and depth; people--so-called "progressives"--actually believe it.
Obama fans don't need anti-virus software
They reject the bitter divisiveness between Peter Norton and the virus writers.
Their data might be compromised, but change is good!