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image thumb102 Facebook Scam Alert! Don’t Be Enticed Into Knowing What This Guy’s Revenge Is [Or The Half Naked Woman]

Scam alert! There is a new Facebook virus on the lose and it apparently wants you know what the person will do about his girlfriend when she cheated him two years back. This is no app and it appears the virus feeds on clicks by users who are unaware of its purpose or more importantly who are consumed by the exotic girl in her bikini.

I just logged onto my Facebook account and found out that our dear friend has been infected by it. Seriously I was baffled when I saw this coming from him, as he isn’t into promoting sexist stuff, but he himself is unaware of how it got through and made it to all his friends. However the viral link is not there on his own profile. What could have triggered this? Also how many people have been infected so far by this? I haven’t clicked on the link to test what it exactly does and how it spreads further, though I will be interested in learning about it from its victims. Please feel free to share this so that we may use the same to create awareness about it and help others be saved from falling prey.

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image thumb109 An iPhone Worm is all you need to create to be hired as an App Developer

What is the best possible way to eliminate a threat without any lawsuits or bombardment? Offer the person a job, give respect and there you have it. We reported about Ashley Towns creating all the news about the iKee worm that crawled the iPhone and it appears that this guy from Australia has now been hired to develop apps for the iPhone. Well that is what he says. I am not sure as to why exactly he has been given this honor?

Oh yes, perhaps following the quote ‘set a thief to catch a thief’. The guy exploited the SSH vulnerability and brought it to Apple’s attention, but wasn’t it immoral of him to let go of it and have it infest the devices? Alright I am being too ethical about it and siding with those who are against his actions. Just think of it, had he gone up to Apple, brought this under their consideration, he wouldn’t have got a dime bit of attention, to be honest. That one bad act has at least got him a job where he can better utilize his talent for something more useful and less threatening!

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