Newegg appears to be infected with some kind of social engineering hack

[R-T-B]

Its a Newegg Bennie. I already have one. If you want it Ill send it to you. after all you started this

Nah, throw it to someone else. I don't really need it either...

 

[jboydgolfer]

what happens to the PC if this update WAS downloaded? anyone know?
e.g. symptoms?

 

[remixedcat]

bennie bunny? hehehehe

or an actual egg?

EGGIEEE!!!!!!

Also softlayer has not responded to the malware/abuse report (some of the Ip reports come from there according to some other people as well as ones on anand and other forums) and from what I've gathered thru the google SL is very hostile to abuse reporters and literally told someone to go away. Also told another live chatter that tehy can only listen to customers and no outsiders... shadyAF datacenter company even though they are one of the largest!!
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Soemone got DDoSed to the tune of 55Gbps and SL just jung up the phone!

webhostingtalk.com has so much dirt on this shiz it's nuts.

It's like they protect people that use thier service to attack people!

 

[Jetster]

Thanks for your work on this remixedcat Id send you the hat but don't you live in another country?

 

[remixedcat]

am in the USA in WV so that would be nice PM me

 

[Rhyseh]

bennie bunny? hehehehe

or an actual egg?

EGGIEEE!!!!!!

Also softlayer has not responded to the malware/abuse report (some of the Ip reports come from there according to some other people as well as ones on anand and other forums) and from what I've gathered thru the google SL is very hostile to abuse reporters and literally told someone to go away. Also told another live chatter that tehy can only listen to customers and no outsiders... shadyAF datacenter company even though they are one of the largest!!
'
Soemone got DDoSed to the tune of 55Gbps and SL just jung up the phone!

webhostingtalk.com has so much dirt on this shiz it's nuts.

It's like they protect people that use thier service to attack people!

I would take the negative press with a grain of salt. SoftLayer are owned by IBM these days and a number of banks and large enterprises utilise their services. Like most cloud providers they only really respond to emails for anything abuse related. Also they have been doing a fair bit of work to remediate the issue of people spinning up servers to be spam hosts. You should give their abuse blog a look through:

http://blog.softlayer.com/tag/abuse

 

[remixedcat]

Just because IBM owns them doesnt automatic lly make em clean tho..

 

[jsalpha2]

I'm in Ohio and I saw the pop-up somewhere (maybe NewEgg) yesterday(?) I had the latest version already so I did not click on the link. Went to the Adobe site and checked there.
(Type "Test Adobe) in Google and it will show where to test shockwave and flash)
Please post a pic of the NewEgg Beany Baby!