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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?"
Opening unknown files could get you hacked. Doh!
Take Nobody's Word For It.
They have the Internet on computers now?
Haw haw!
Sounds more like Ralph.
"Wow! A blue car!"
One of my favourites!!
I just pooped your party.
I'm sure the number of attempted infections from this attack are very small in the scale of typical virus'. But I would not be surprised if the number of successful infections was pretty high, relatively speaking.
"Hello, this is Homer Simpson aka Chunkylover53! The court has ordered me to IM every person in town to apologize for my botnet scheme. I'm sorry. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to : Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power!"
God, schmod. I want my monkey man!
D'oh!
mmmmmmmm... trojans...
I don't know why you had a problem. That's a perfectly cromulent username.
John
Recall that there was a Simpsons episode where he salvages an auto-caller to run a telemarketing scam on the residents of Springfield.
Also recall that Homer actually did figure out how to setup a website and post "blogs" in his stint as Mr. X.
So, all someone has to do is give him a spiel of how a particular program or an infected computer (not known to Homer of course) can provide him with easy money, and he'll be more than happy to distribute that program en masse or very quickly hook up his computer to the internet. :-)
It is very embiggening of you to make this comment!
...and it should be known by now
The player's handbook clearly says I shouldn't lose XPs for tha...I mean, uh, I don't get your nerdy joke!
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Mhmmmm, turkey... Mhmmm, botnet..
ics
There was more to those brownies than you thought.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Ya, its still there. The government, and comcast, haven't killed it off totally, yet.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Does it have speed holes?
All TV characters should have e-mail addresses. It's a no-brainer
Yeah, but only Homer Simpson should have an @aol.com address.
He's a NUCLEAR SAFETY EXPERT at a Nuclear Power Plant. I am sure that qualifies him to run antivirus. Right?
S14E08 - The Dad Who Knew Too Little
(#EABF03 / SI-1403) aired January 12th 2003
is it a bad sign, that i found it within 1-2 minutes?
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes