Potential Virus Alert
 

Got an email just now.

Here's the text

If your mom sees this she this video of you she is gonna freak. check it out yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz6lXLsi76B

Link takes you to an IP address registered in Queensland AU.

When you get there you see a youtube logo, linked to directly from youtube, with this message,

Your Download Should Begin Shortly. If your download does not start in approximately 15 seconds, you can click here to launch the download and then press Run.

The download is a file named video.exe.

Have not seen this attempt before.

Good Catch!

Sure, but you left the link for this 'virus' in the original post!

No I didn't. The original email contained this url with an a href source= link back to the spoof page.

The actual URL will take you to the real youtube if you copy/paste to a browser.

Only clicking it in the original email takes you to the spoof page.

It got automagically formatted as a link because the BB saw http:// and assumed that is what I wanted it to do.

It did NOT carry the a href source=.

I checked before submitting.

That dumb I ain't.