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Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:09 am

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/obamaspeech.asp

For those of you who are interested in the United States' newest president, someone else isn't. Please be advised.
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Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:44 am

It's a "phishing" tactic to spread a "trojan horse virus". Who ever must have had it set up in advance and just customized it to deploy it quickly. Poop-heads I like to call these people who do this.
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Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:40 am

Poop-heads, huh?

I like that :D
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Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:24 am

It could be argued that anyone who bought into the Obama hype deserves to be infected :roll: :D
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Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:34 am

amen..... :D:D:D:D
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Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:25 pm

Yep, they do indeed deserve it. Unfortunately, the IT consultant in me will be one of the army that will have to go out and clean it up.... :roll: Oh joy..... :?
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Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:39 pm

so if you click on the link yu get the virus or what
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Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:49 pm

jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:It could be argued that anyone who bought into the Obama hype deserves to be infected :roll: :D
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090121/ap_ ... cutive_pay

so far thats 1 thing he said he was going to do and carried out on.

lets see if the trend continues.
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Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:54 pm

raptorforce wrote:so if you click on the link yu get the virus or what
It will trick you into downloading a malicious program that will infect your computer. If you get an email that is suspicious, just delete it if your antivirus program didn't already catch it for you.
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Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:35 pm

I don't really know too much about any political subject (in other words, let's try to keep this down so that it will not develop into a political battle). I do hope it works out for the best, though.
starman wrote:Unfortunately, the IT consultant in me will be one of the army that will have to go out and clean it up.... Rolling Eyes Oh joy..... Confused
Job security :wink:
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