Erin Andrews has been a sports reporter for ESPN since 2004.
And a very good one.
Seems her only sin, according to some sports loving males, is that she's a good looker and (perhaps) blonde.
Now some sleazebag has pointed a video camera through the peephole in her hotel room and managed to get some footage of her walking around her room in the nude.
The threat of legal action has caused most of the sites running the videos to take them down.As they should.
But legal action didn't stop CBS from airing it. Walter Cronkite would never have allowed that!
The reason for this post, however, is a warning.
Spammers and Trojan installers are jumping on this baby like you wouldn't believe.
Or perhaps you would.
There's been an outbreak of malicious spam, web sites and even Twitter posts promoting the video.
One blog site I checked had what looked like it could be the video but when it was clicked on it went to a message saying that "because of high demand" I was being redirected to another web site.
Which I was.
It was an ad for an on-line casino or something.No mention of Erin Andrews.
I hope the site had no more evil intent in terms of dumping some nasty on my machine.
Time will tell.
Researchers report the Trojan installers used in the scam are generating a large number of polymorphic variants. The installers change with sites each day and number around 10,000 unique hashes.
VIPRE detects one as Trojan.NSIS.DnsChanger (v). Detections for a second, Trojan-Downloader.Win32.CodecPack.2GCash.Gen, will be pushed out shortly.
OK. You're thinking I'm a hypocrite by, on one hand, decrying the incident, and then trying to get to see the video myself.
Hey, it was for research purposes only. (cough-cough)
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