World of Warcraft users get another worry
INSECURITY FIRM Sophos is warning World of Warcraft users to be on the look out for sexy strangers bearing dangerous gifts.
According to the company a new scam email is targeting users of the 'better than real life' game offering them rude photos and the chance to acquire a girlfriend - without actually having to shower and leave their musky bedroom.
The emails carry the beguiling subject line, "Do you like to find a girlfriend like me?", which should put off anyone but the most desperate of users, and contain the sort of text that would make Belle Du Jour weep.
"Wish to have a boyfriend
Be able to protect me, take care of me
Intolerable lonely night and would like to have your care.
do you Willing?
This is my photos."
By now World of Warcraft users are expected to be in a state of heightened sexuality, and of course are offered a .rar file supposedly containing photos of this mysterious paramour. Although some media is contained, and we let Graham Cluley at Sophos do the dirty work (cropped picture warning), an included video launches a Trojan horse designed to steal usernames and passwords.
"A surprising amount of malware is designed to steal registration keys, passwords and data from players of computer games," said Cluley. "This isn't just about doing better in a computer game. Criminals are stealing virtual assets like armour, money and weapons to trade for hard cash in the real world. Hackers love to exploit human weaknesses to break into users' computers, and images of a naked woman may prove hard for some to resist."
You have been warned. µ
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If you are that stupid, let e-natural selection take it's place.
Where do i sign up, can i have like 72 of them as well or is it just one per customer?
I don't think its just targeted at lonely old men. It's targeted at anyone who has an underdeveloped brain.. such as kids or mildly retarded adults.
If you are an average 12/13 boy playing WOW, in grade 7 and whatnot, just learned about pornography, your parents buy you all kinds of shit you want, you have nothing to worry about, you see some pic/video of a chick with huge boobs, you are gonna check it out. I probably would too. :)
That chick does seem mighty hot. Maybe I can call Sophos to send me the uncropped content.. minus the trojan.
I actually got one of those emails yesterday, of course I wasn't dumb enough to open up a .rar attachment coming from some random person speaking very broken english....
Then you wonder why I left this site. This is so stupid how can you even call this news. When I exposed nvidia's chip problem that was news. This is just BS!
First of all I just gotta say if you're really so desperate to fall for something like this you deserve it. That said I gotta wonder how are people so obessed with something on the computer could be so clueless that they can't tell the difference between a video file and an executable. Seriously people video files are video files and executables are executables, they do not meet unless you're counting the rare exception were you get a singularly packaged flash animation done as an executable. Even in that rare case though executable is actually the player with the individual animation elements along with the animation instructions compressed inside the exe in a special resource space so it's not really a video despite the fact it plays like one.
Anyway gotta agree with Jimmy the asian chick in the picture over at Sophos is pretty hot. That said asian chicks stacked like that are exceptionally rare outside of the porn industry so even if it wasn't already painfully obvious that it is a trap of some kind that fact should be a bit of a clue.
YEah right jimmy, boys with internet that can't get sex pictures.. and want to have adult GF that are into 'urinating' and use terms like 'vulva', OK sure.
...is that no-one has bothered to separate the images from the virii and post them anywhere!
Just take a look at the girl on the AV blog - she's gorgeous! Who wouldn't want to spread the whole, un-cropped version of that? Especially if there are others of the same girl in the archive.
"This is news?
Then you wonder why I left this site. This is so stupid how can you even call this news. When I exposed nvidia's chip problem that was news. This is just BS!
posted by : Charlie Demerjian"
YOU AREN'T ME!!!!!
And besides, the nvidia chip problem I was lying about was just a ruse anyways. If you were the real Charlie, like me, you would have known this.
Quit parading around like you're me.
Getting desperate for some attention, are we ?
You wouldn't have a WoW account, by any chance ?