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Security researchers have discovered a strain of malware that uses the geolocation service offered by an adult dating website as an easy way to determine the location of infected machines. Thousands of infected machines in a zombie network all phoned home to the URL promos.fling.com/geo/txt/city.php at the adult hookup site …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    SERVES THEM RIGHT

    ANYBODY WHO WOULD USE THE INTERNET FOR PORN SHOULD HAVE THERE MACHINES INFECTED

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: SERVES THEM RIGHT

      Almost full marks for the obvious troll. Capitals, off -topic (porn != dating site), a bit of holier than thou and even a spelling mistake but unfortunately no profanities.

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      1. Isendel Steel
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        Re: SERVES THEM RIGHT

        His second I've seen today....

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        1. ArmanX
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          Re: SERVES THEM RIGHT

          For the full effect, he needs the Linux penguin icon, the pirate flag icon, or the detective icon. Whichever would fit the least.

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      2. Eponymous Cowherd
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        @Chris W

        His comedy redneck persona quite funny, however.

        Of course, having a really close family (and livestock), he'd have no need for pr0n.

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    2. LarsG
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      Re: SERVES THEM RIGHT

      He who shouts loudest!

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Hmmm

    Infected PCs. So is it Windoze only?

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Typo

    "dues" should be "used" in the 4th paragraph

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  4. El Richard Thomas

    Not quite as good as GPS

    Very accurate service - for me it just returns: document.write("Spain");

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  5. Coyote
    FAIL

    Doing things the hard way...

    I don't know why malware would bounce a geolocation query off an "adult" site, which is bound to raise a red flag on a monitored network.

    http://www.geoiptool.com/ works just as well and looks a lot less shady.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Doing things the hard way...

      Maybe the hacker just wanted to fling caution to the wind?

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