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Offline polonus

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Video warns against downloading malicious video-codecs!
« on: July 22, 2009, 07:30:43 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

Users while searching for the Erin Andrews video that was leaked onto YouTube fell into the hands of malcreators. A video that warned against this abuse: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5662308&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1
was taken down by YouTube by mistake, so a lot of victims are not warned against getting themselves infected in this manner. YouTube this is not a good action!

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Re: Video warns against downloading malicious video-codecs!
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2009, 07:46:38 PM »
is this such a surprise given what the users were looking for on youtube  ???

really witty pic. I like it ;D
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