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October 1, 2007

EMAIL Hell - See the Video, Catch the Virus

by Ferdinand T Cat

Some time back we received a email warning that a giant tsunami was going to wipe out America. Well, actually, I'm not being specific enough. We got an email warning us about a tsunami predicted in the Bible, and we received a spam email about a different tsunami that turned out in fact to be an ad for storm doors.

I have a bit of a problem in this regard because there are people who do send me stories they think I'll find interesting. So I can't automatically classify every news item from an unknown source as spam. But since the tsunami incident, I've suspected everything that comes into our mailbox in the guise of a news story.

I mention this because I did not consider it beyond the realm of possibility that Britney Spears killed herself and then scrawled the number 666 on her forehead while a nurse recorded the entire thing on a cell phone camera. Let's face it: Ms. Spears has not been having a very good time in the past few days. Nonetheless, the story was a fake, and URL for the alleged video of the incident executes a script that attempts to deploy a virus on your PC.

So don't be fooled. Just because a news story appears plausible doesn't mean it's true.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, Perri Nelson's Website, Rosemary's Thoughts, guerrilla radio, DeMediacratic Nation, Big Dog's Weblog, Right Truth, Jeanette's Celebrity Corner, The Populist, Shadowscope, Webloggin, Leaning Straight Up, The Bullwinkle Blog, The Amboy Times, Nuke's, Allie is Wired, third world county, The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, DragonLady's World, Walls of the City, Blue Star Chronicles, Pirate's Cove, The Pink Flamingo, Republican National Convention Blog, Dumb Ox Daily News, High Desert Wanderer, Right Voices, Gone Hollywood, and The Yankee Sailor, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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