Serena Williams outburst infectious - in a bad way
Symantec is warning internet users that prowling around for web footage of Serena William's temper tantrum may cause temper tantrums.
Posted September 14, 2009
While Serena Williams' outburst regarding her loss at the U.S. Open this weekend has garnered lots of attention and people searching online for the video footage, Symantec has noted that malware authors are quickly catching on to this trending topic.
Online searches for terms such as "Serena Williams Outburst" pull up malicious sites where a fake antivirus scan window pops up and reports that various threats are detected and offers a download to fix the problem. Hint: don't.
The scale of this SEO poisoning attack is quite small, Symantec reports, but suggests computer users to keep security systems running and up-to-date. Not coincidently, Symantec offers the computer security solutions known as Norton.