FYI...
- http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008...inundated.html
April 05, 2008 - "As we’ve seen before, this continues to be a problem on Google Groups: Fake posts pushing porn that pushes malware (fake codecs)... This really needs to get cleaned up. There’s a reason why so many of the threats that we see users getting infected with are invariably fake codec related..."
(...because it works. Screenshots available at the URL above.)
