Spam offers to let people attack Obama's web site, but then infects them with trojan

[FlyingPenguin]

As P. T. Barnum says, there's a sucker born every minute.

These people are getting conned into downloading this "DoS" software which is nothing but a virus.

I guess I'll be getting some frantic phone calls from my right-wing retiree clients soon.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10312641-245.html

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...

[Pugsley]

so... has anybody been paid yet?

[normalicy]

One of those you get what you give sort of things.