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Britney is #1 Virus Celebrity

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the a-dubious-honor dept.

No France writes "The two ways for an email virus to spread is to use an exploit, or entice the user to click the link/executable. Of course the latter is the easiest, and is the most effective when used in conjunction with a celebrity's name. Despite the recent Jackson suicide emails, Britney Spears is the one to recently edge out Bill Gates as the top virus celebrity. The top 10 (in descending order): Britney Spears, Bill Gates, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Osama Bin Laden, Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton, Anna Kournikova, Paris Hilton, and Pamela Anderson."

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  1. Oh great by alvinrod · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Like we all needed another reason to dislike Britney Spears.

    If they just showed everyone a nude shot of her at school/work so everyone could get it out of their system, most of this problem would go away.

  2. Re:A little ironic... by odaen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's like good advice, that you just didn't take.

  3. Re:A little ironic... by daikokatana · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A song about irony that is called 'Ironic' but isn't ironic at all - now THAT's irony for you!

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  4. Re:wha? by TubeSteak · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Dude, you're on the wrong forum,
    You must have confused this with Fark

    Over there they have big pictures that say:
    THIS THREAD IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT PICTURES

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  5. Re:A little ironic... by Aaron+Pannell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's just another example of how the totalitarian government that runs this planet partitions off information in such a way that we are forced to... oh wait, wrong site... err... I for one welcome our new fasionable overlords.

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  6. Re:Virus Drills by TubeSteak · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Or people will just ignore e-mails from IT.
    Its pretty easy actually. After you read the title, you just click 'delete'.

    I get along fine without reading them.
    Except when the network is down.
    Then I get an e-mail with the subject: The Network Is Down
    As if I hadn't noticed.

    Sticking to my tried-and-true method of clicking 'delete'
    I get up and ask the nearest cute girl if she's read "that e-mail" from IT?

    Its a great conversation starter.

    "How come the network is down this time?"
    Works like a charm


    Could you tell I made all this up?
    What gave it away?
    Dammit I forgot this is /.
    No cute girls!

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  7. Re:The top 10 (in descending order): by platypibri · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This AC obviously has waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to much time on his/her hands.

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