Wikipedia can be Used by Scammers for Virus Distribution

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Dragan Pleskonjic

This is awfull!

Hackers entered a Web page into the German edition of Wikipedia that claimed there was a new variant of the Blaster virus floating around and provided a link to a download to remove the virus.
The problem was, the supposed virus remover was the virus.

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