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Kanye West “Imma Let You Finish” Craze Causes VirusesPosted on: September 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Mocking Kanye West’s total jackass-ness has morphed into an easy way for hackers to install malicious software onto our computers. The comedic craze, known as “Imma Let You Finish” imposes mashups of West’s words – “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you and I’m gonna (sic) let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time” – over footage of other famous moments in history. Barack Obama, Neil Armstrong, and Adolf Hitler have been remixed to show West interrupting their moments.
There’s even one that pokes fun at the Patrick Swayze — who lost his battle with Cancer this week. “Yo Patrick Swayze, I know you just died and all and Imma (sic) let you finish but Michael Jackson’s death was the best one this year,” (This was text forwarded to me by my 15 year-old nephew if that tells you just how wide spread this viral is.) The hackers created a webpage based on Kanye’s humiliation of Taylor Swift and tricked victims into clicking on it, after which their PCs are infected with harmful spyware. The infected web page claims to show a video of Patrick Swayze’s funeral, but it is actually a link to malicious software. “Users think they have to click on the ‘video’ to enable video streaming,” said an F-Secure spokesperson. “Actually, it’s an image and clicking on it takes the user to another website promising another video. And clicking on this video ends up with the user unintentionally downloading a rogue AV.” Although you really can’t blame Kanye for the hackers using thier powers for evil instead of good …because God knows there is no way ‘Ye would go through some much trouble if it didn’t benefit him. But I still blame him a little bit.
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