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DOStradamus
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reply to XknightHawkX
Re: "Fake MP3 Trojan" Detected On "27%" Of PCs

I've seen too many fall for this 1-2 punch:

1. They download this innocuous-looking video, which, I'll name "A Horse on"Britney on A Horse". Wait for it, and with (saliva) glands activated, they attempt to play it, and are grreted with failure after failure, no matter what they do.

2. Going back to where they got the file, they see a line "If you have problems playing this video, make sure that you use the "Bedevere's Rabbit" CoDec, available here......

With blood long having departed his brain, for places "South", he "Goes out and pushes that big wooden rabbit into his castle". As this isn't a scene from that great movie(*), our (now, victim), installs that badboy, and....

-NK

(*) Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Before thae days of VCRs, I actually paid to go see it a dozen or so times in the theatres....
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