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Comments on: Obama strumpet-sex scandal ruse spreads malware

hmmm 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 16:07 GMT

Coat

obama sin-laden?

Yes I have been waiting ages to use that...

How do you show something implausibly? 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 16:26 GMT

Inquiring minds want to know!

Monica == Reggie Perrin's mother-in-law 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 16:26 GMT

Joke

"Curiously, the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal never became the topic of a malware attack"

Presumably for the same reason as the non-existent Curry/Major sex tapes. Dare one say that no attractive women (-ish, or at least moreso than a hippo) were involved?

(Still shuddering)

Thank GOD... 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 16:48 GMT

Paris Hilton

it's not John McCain, OMG, I need a shower now even thinking that, I feel so dirty.

And ill...

Exploit tagetting political conservatives? 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 16:54 GMT

An interesting idea. With a little research, I'm sure that it would be possible to target those with a given political orientation.

Would you be more or less likely to connect to a URL advertising negative information about your candidate?

Would you be more or less likely to connect to a URL advertising negative information about your candidate's opposition?

Political nastiness could reach a new level of... nastiness.

Why is This News? 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 16:56 GMT

There's been six dozen variants on this in my spamcatcher for weeks.

My favorite is the one where he's boffing Cindy McCain.

You have to be dim 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 17:07 GMT

Or even stupid to open any of these spurious news flashes. I get them all the time on MSN live and yahoo but both accounts automatically class these as spam. Even if they didn't, the same old thing applies, if you don't know the sender don't open it.

Frankly, anyone who is sad enough to want to see Obama getting his rocks off on screen deserves all they get.

Republicans will do anything ... 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 17:33 GMT

to discredit their opposition.

errr... 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 20:30 GMT

Alert

it has to beat getting rick rolled

@ Richard 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 20:40 GMT

Coat

Oy, wash yer mouth out! Agreed that Monica was a bit of a dog but Edwina.... phwoar! Well, I would've...

Gawd knows what she saw in Major, who was a sort of Antichrist of Sex.

Anyway, as Chris G says above, anyone stupid enough to follow celeb-sex links deserves to have their bank account emptied.

Mine's the dirty mac with the stain at thigh level

Psssssssst 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 22:09 GMT

Has sex tapes of bill and Hillary. Just click here www.sucker.com

Chris G and Sceptical Bastard... 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 23:17 GMT

are quite right: anyone who gets caught by this deserves everything they get - which should also include their name, email address, telephone number and any images from their web cam being harvested and submitted to a "Top Internet Fucktards" site so we can identify these morons and amuse ourselves by emailing/calling them and saying "BWAhahahahahahaha, wot a fuckwit!"

Sadly, malware these days seems focussed largely on making the affected machine into a slave of the baddies so it actually is a bad thing for the rest of us when morons get themselves infected.

I yearn for the good old days when the malware actually deleted stuff off the hard-drive or fucked up the computer in some way (reformatted drives, flashed BIOS etc) - no skin off my nose if some dumb bunny loses their life's work because they wanted to watch Obama gettin' it on...

@Sceptical Bastard 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 23:48 GMT

"with the stain at thigh level"

Ah, I see your account has been emptied then.

Funniest ones I saw... 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 23:59 GMT

Happy

..was a recent spate hitting my inbox with titles like "Britney Spears does not flash her underwear today".

Talk about truth in spamvertising. ^_^

I misread that 

Posted Wednesday 10th September 2008 00:08 GMT

Joke

as "erection-related campaign..."

Seems more fitting.

Re: You have to be dim 

Posted Wednesday 10th September 2008 01:01 GMT

MSN Live blocked something?

One Tory commented 

Posted Wednesday 10th September 2008 09:00 GMT

Coat

That when he saw Edwina Currie brandishing a pair of handcuffs at a Party Conference

"He felt a batsqueak of desire"

Her politics may be detestable but she had a certain something I suppose

That's what happens when Focus on the Family 

Posted Wednesday 10th September 2008 23:29 GMT

Dead Vulture

loses focus. I hope lots of pious asshats and goony hockey players clicked on it. Goes without saying, they use Windows, too.

Bird barf. I can't believe they are allowed to vote.

So 

Posted Wednesday 10th September 2008 23:36 GMT

Paris Hilton

So these guys deserve a medal or two as all the dumb insular stupid rednecks fall for that one hook line and sinker , as these self effacing idiot get what they deserve and deserve what they get , let these fools get burned .

As a certain socialite would say "Ha! Ha! , got you again fool !"

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