Twilight Movie Fans Targeted in Scareware, Viruses
A viral marketing campaign designed to exploit your anticipation over the New Moon movie coming out tomorrow may look like normal free media you’ve come to expect on the Internet. A scareware purveyor has been spreading bad URLs, with the help of corrupted Google search results, having to do with the movie and its stars. Fans are being directed to chats and blogposts that read “Watch New Moon Full Movie.” Concurrently, the bad guys use an automated script to fill the posts and comments with related keywords to attract more search engines. Read the full article. [The Last Watchdog]
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