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Anti-virus makers release correction to “Derek Jeter” virus
“All over the internet we were seeing Derek Jeter’s name appearing with phrases such as ‘Four rings’, ‘leadership’, ‘clutch’ and ‘317 lifetime average’ - we started seeing these groupings of words appearing millions of times over the last 2 weeks and naturally assumed it was a virus.”
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TechnoratiSeveral leading vendors of Anti-Virus software, including Norton, McAfee and Symantec will be releasing new virus definition files to correct earlier releases designed to prevent the spread of the “Derek Jeter” virus.
A spokesperson for Norton said “When you see a certain grouping of words appearing everywhere in a short period of time it raises a flag.”
“All over the internet we were seeing Derek Jeter’s name appearing with phrases such as ‘Four rings’, ‘leadership’, ‘clutch’ and ‘317 lifetime average’ - we started seeing these groupings of words appearing millions of times over the last 2 weeks and naturally assumed it was a virus.”
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In addition to vendors of Anti-Virus software, online blogging services said that they will need to double-check their SPAM filters for similar problems.
All companies said they hope to have the problem corrected before the indictment of Roger Clemens.
Comments on “Anti-virus makers release correction to “Derek Jeter” virus”
Pissed? I would be too if I was a fan of Derek Jeter, you should definitely complain about it...
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February 27th, 2008 at 3:49 am
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Momus
Holy f*ck that is funny. I love the chart! I might start using that as my avatar.
rudy
Okay, I’m a Yankee fan but that is pretty funny.
Of course you don’t show how much of the traffic is Yankee-haters bashing Jeter.
sean
LOL!!!!
Momus
Hey - I posted this on cbs sportsline earlier btw. There’s a few comments there - how come there’s none here?
sean
Probably because you have to register to leave a comment. WTF up with that?
Leafs
Okay thats fucking hilarious!
What up with peple saying this is Yankee bashing? Its making fun of the yankee fans. it dosn’t even say anything bad about jeter.
Stop making fun of the Leafs! They’ve won like 3 in a row.
admin
I turned comments off because of the SPAM, but since then I put in a spam filter that seems to do a really good job (Jeter comments get through fine too… heh)
I’m going to try opening the comments to everyone and see how that goes…
nightfire
I always just figured they recruited a spam house to promote him….. :p
gen
LOL!!! too funny
admin
Okay - apparently I’m not enabling comments without registration. I changed the setting, but it’s still demanding login.
I’m going to work on it…
Big Al
…..What???