As eager fans wait in anticipation for the new Harry Potter book to arrive in stores some will do almost anything to get it. A NASTY new virus has taken advantage of the worldwide Harry Potter mania to infect computers around the world. This virus/spam is disguised as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which releases worldwide on July 21. Once the virus is in the users system it copies itself onto any attached USB drive so it can spread to any other computer that it's connected to. If you think it's bad enough already than wait till you hear about this Windows user will also receive this message"Read and repent, the end is near, repent from your evil ways O Ye folks lest you burn in hell . . . JK Rowling especially". but wait there's more, this spam also leads you to a spoof Amazon.com selling a fake book called 'Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecake.' If you have any opinions on my blog don't forget to comment.
Holly,
4 comments:
Great blog, it certainly makes sense that hackers would take advantage of this worldwide event, but some people just take these books too far.
I cant imagine how much pressure is being put on J. K. Rowlings shoulders having to make these books good enough for the ENTIRE world and how popular it is anyway.
Harry Potter will also be something that kids from this generation can read their kids later on in life aswell. So it's quite important to them too.
-Keir
I pretty much agree with what keir said in the fact that hackers and other people will take advantage of such a publicised book.
Seeing as Harry Potter is such a good book that generations after we die people will still be reading these astounding books.
"Read and repent, the end is near, repent from your evil ways O Ye folks lest you burn in hell . . . JK Rowling especially" What's with that?! Is that about Neo Paganism or something? It's not like many people are gullable enough to believe in magic or anything and the people who are are probably so messed up that they don't really count as human beings! (I hope that doesn't count as no offending people). Hackers are so annoying and most don't gain much from it either.
Bye,
**Anthea**
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