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Homer Simpson and the Kimya Botnet
Posted by
CowboyNeal
on Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:14 AM
from the why-you-little dept.
from the why-you-little dept.
An anonymous reader writes "As all hardcore Simpsons fans know, Chunkylover53@aol.com was revealed to be Homer Simpsons' email address in one particular episode, registered by one of the shows writers, who would reply to fans as Homer himself. After a flood of messages, 'Homer' signed off — seemingly forever. Well in the last few days, security company Facetime Communications reports that anyone who had Homer on their AIM buddy list would have noticed his sudden reappearance. Unfortunately for all, he appears to have been hacked and pushing malware links which deposit those unlucky enough to run the file into a Turkish Botnet. The message claims the file is a 'web exclusive' episode of the TV show — an interesting way of targeting a specific group of fans who would assume Homers return would only coincide with something special like (say) a TV episode just for them. What I want to know is, is Homer smart enough to run an AV scan?"
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Opening files (Score:5, Funny)
Opening unknown files could get you hacked. Doh!
Obligiatory Homer Quote (Score:5, Funny)
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"Wow! A blue car!"
One of my favourites!!
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Does it have speed holes?
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There was more to those brownies than you thought.
Re:All TV characters should have e-mail addresses (Score:5, Funny)
All TV characters should have e-mail addresses. It's a no-brainer
Yeah, but only Homer Simpson should have an @aol.com address.
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Nelson Muntz's response (Score:2, Funny)
Running AIM and clicking on random executables? (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds more like Ralph.
Ineteresting tactic (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm sure the number of attempted infections from this attack are very small in the scale of typical virus'. But I would not be surprised if the number of successful infections was pretty high, relatively speaking.
Don't recall that episode (Score:2)
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I can imagine how this will wrap up (Score:5, Funny)
"Hello, this is Homer Simpson aka Chunkylover53! The court has ordered me to IM every person in town to apologize for my botnet scheme. I'm sorry. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to : Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power!"
Re:I can imagine how this will wrap up (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:I can imagine how this will wrap up (Score:5, Funny)
Of course! It's the state bordered by Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky. You know the one!
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homer... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:homer... (Score:4, Funny)
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Great, now I'm hungary.
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Joey, have you ever been in a turkish botnet?
Of course (Score:3, Insightful)
He's a NUCLEAR SAFETY EXPERT at a Nuclear Power Plant. I am sure that qualifies him to run antivirus. Right?
That was episode... (Score:3, Interesting)
(#EABF03 / SI-1403) aired January 12th 2003
is it a bad sign, that i found it within 1-2 minutes?
Re:he's not online (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:he's not online (Score:4, Funny)
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Ya, its still there. The government, and comcast, haven't killed it off totally, yet.