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Kanye West “Imma Let You Finish” Craze Used To Spread Viruses

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September 18th, 2009 by Castina

Tagged as: Kayne West,Taylor Swift

Kanye West is bad for your PC. The viral craze based on the rapper’s humiliation of Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards is being used by cybercriminals to install malicious software onto computers.

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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 against pancreatic cancer on Monday. “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,” the graphic reads.

Hackers created a webpage based on the West debacle and tricked victims into clicking on it, after which their PCs are infected with harmful spyware, according to anti-virus software company F-Secure. 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.”


       



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