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September 16, 2009
Aliens Are Using Google's Crop Circle Logo To Invade Our Computers
Yesterday Google did another of their clever logo mysteries, the crop circle one seen below. But while I was tying it to the latitude and longitude they used in Twitter my computer was nearly hijacked.
The interesting part of the search was the warning on the first listing which pushes you down to make another choice, yet the one I did pick that used good title tags and descriptions to rope me in was just as bad - causing a close Firefox to escape the trap scenario for me.
Hey guys if you are going to have fun with your users and test their smarts etc. how about protecting us!
I for one am no longer going to play this game. I will leave to others that have the time to clean their PCs or have some ultra malware protector installed. Funny but that was what the spammer was pushing.
UPDATE
Below is an aerial pic of those coordinates:
Posted by Frank Watson on September 16, 2009 12:38 PM
Comments
Aussiewebmaster September 16, 2009 1:11 PM
It is fascinating how these memes can take life and points to the very real danger that something far less fun and frivolous than this might one day spread on the Internet. This story really has taken hold of the public imagination (probably hundreds of posts out there and most major news sites picking up on it.) With H.G Wells worked into this story, we can add to the plot the Martians, who have a real reputation for mayhem, beginning back in 1938 with the Orson Welles War of the Worlds broadcast. There's a potent brew available to a really determined social engineer to create a meme that could do real damage to health and sanity. The Welles broadcast was not the only one to get out of hand. Better watch out that someone doesn't wage a new war of the worlds one day on the Internet.
John Gosling September 16, 2009 5:10 PM
@Aussiewebmaster
Haha, isn't that great publicity though?
I saw one show in NatGeo about Crop Circle. It was a balanced analysis (man-made or not). But my conclusion was: crop circles are just made by humans.
seo west palm beach September 16, 2009 8:53 PM
If I owned that house I think I would be moving!!!