Serena's on court outburst exploited by malware
The on-court outburst of World No. 2 WTA player Serena Williams during the recently concluded US Open Women's semifinal didn't just cost her a big fine, it caused some PC users a lot of grief in the form of malware.
People searching online for website links and video of Williams, who had a heated altercation with a line judge and made verbal threats that led to a game-ending point deduction; were met with fake antivirus pop-up windows reporting that the user's computer is infected and needs to download a program to fix the problem.
Downloading this program, titled setup_build7_195.exe actually installs malware that corrupts the host system. Symantec's security response blog offers more details about the nature of this attack.
