Homer Simpson and the Kimya Botnet

An anonymous reader writes "As all hardcore Simpsons fans know, Chunkylover53@aol.com was revealed to be Homer Simpsons' email address in one particular episode, registered by one of the shows writers, who would reply to fans as Homer himself. After a flood of messages, 'Homer' signed off — seemingly forever. Well in the last few days, security company Facetime Communications reports that anyone who had Homer on their AIM buddy list would have noticed his sudden reappearance. Unfortunately for all, he appears to have been hacked and pushing malware links which deposit those unlucky enough to run the file into a Turkish Botnet. The message claims the file is a 'web exclusive' episode of the TV show — an interesting way of targeting a specific group of fans who would assume Homers return would only coincide with something special like (say) a TV episode just for them. What I want to know is, is Homer smart enough to run an AV scan?"

Comments

Re:*.exe

[Technician]

I love Ubuntu. Often a photo or video online results in the what do you want to do with this .exe file? Save or Cancel.

Sometimes AV software has to try to eject malware after it ran. On Ubuntu, it doesn't run.

Any installer needing admin privilages aslo fail. I don't browse as admin.