gymnastics Flash movie computer malware

[GymBot]

No harm done, it seems. But clicking on a gymnastics movie sent to you in an email may result in an unexpected anti-China message.RaceForTibet.exe, shows a cartoon with a very skilled Chinese gymnast performing some amazingly convoluted exercise on a “vaulting Bbox” for which the jury immediately scored her a shocking 0! Whilst the gymnast’s [...]

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[JBS]

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Originally Posted by GymnBot No harm done, it seems. But clicking on a gymnastics movie sent to you in an email may result in an unexpected anti-China message.RaceForTibet.exe, shows a cartoon with a very skilled Chinese gymnast performing some amazingly convoluted exercise on a “vaulting Bbox” for which the jury immediately scored her a shocking 0! Whilst the gymnast’s [...] More...

This is an interesting post that I saw on GymnasticsCoaching.com. The original post from McAfee can be found at the following link:

http://www.avertlabs.com/research/bl...olympic-event/

Anybody have any comments on this?

[NYgymfan]

Generally clicking on any .exe file in a random e-mail is a bad idea...

[Cynical-Chick]

^ Yeah, you'd have to be pretty stupid to open an .exe or .bat file in a random email.

[NYgymfan]

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Originally Posted by Cynical-Chick ^ Yeah, you'd have to be pretty stupid to open an .exe or .bat file in a random email.

Yeah. I know that now after learning the hard way! Lets just say my parents were very not happy at having to pay to have the comp fixed after one of those .exe files ate the registry on my labtop!

[JBS]

I was referring to the current situation in China.