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In "News Discussion: Don't worry about Climategate, says Gore" one of the Southpark links in Ted's post appear does not link to a South Park video, but appears to contain some kind of worm or spyware.
When I clicked on the arrow to look at the video, another screen that "looked like' my Safari browser window appeared with a full screen advertisement. When I tried closing it, a pop-up ad appeared, which also advised my Safari browser had been closed, and offering only an "OK" button for more info. Since I would not risk clicking the okay button, I tried my tool bar to force-quit the (whatever it was) program. However, most of the tool bar controls were disabled, including the "shut down" and "restart" functions. I had to do a hard shut-down using the switch on the back of my computer.
When I started back up and tried to put a warning message on that thread, I could see that the program automatically began downloading again, even without my clicking on its image.
Hoping it can be deleted from the thread. If it will do that to a Mac, don't care to imagine what it would do to a Windows machine.
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