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Homer Simpson and the Kimya Botnet
7/13/2008

An unnamed reader writes "As all hardcore Simpsons fans know, Chunkylover53@aol.com was revealed to be Homer Simpsons' email address in one careful episode, registered by one of the shows writers, who would reply to fans as Homer himself. After a flood of messages, 'Homer' signed off — externally forever. Well in the last few days, access systems & monitoring. call today.www.tutela.us
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guard 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 express group of fans who would assume Homers return would only coincide with existence special like (say) a TV episode just for them. What I want to know is, is Homer smart enough to run an AV scan?"

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