Spammers and hackers began to exploit the “Virginia Tech” meme

Shooting at the University of Technology in Virginia is heightened interest among the general public. But there are people who are used to tracking changes in the mass consciousness in order to use these changes for their own selfish purposes. These are spammers and hackers. For them, the well-known meme (a virus of consciousness, a media virus) associated with being shot in Virginia is the same thing that exploits a popular computer system.

While a video made by a Virginia killer is gaining hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube, themed spam and viruses have begun to spread on the Internet. If you click on the link in the spam letter, the TERROR_EM_VIRGINIA.scr screensaver will be downloaded to the computer, which, in turn, will install the Trojan program.



Experts say that hackers and spammers are increasingly using "hot topics" of news to convince users to open the file, download and install a malicious program.
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Domain operators have long been involved in the operation of memes. To date, more than 450 new domains associated with the shooting in Virginia have already been registered. Many of them are already on eBay . The reaction rate of the domainers is now much higher than after the hurricane Katrina in August 2005.