Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos

While investigating this heap of junk, I noticed a few usernames associated with pimping it. One of the most notable was Yogangsta50 (note how he sends people to the infection file download - yet people are praising him with regards how good the "game" is. I'm thinking the link originally gave you the game minus the infection, and he switched a little down the line).

Now, Google our Gangsta pal, and you'll see an endless stream of profiles on video sharing sites. In fact, here he is with a profile on YouTube:


All his clips are straight up homeboi action, G, but what's really interesting is this clip here..."Myspace protect" (note the similarity to the font / general style used by the O222333 guy originally pushing the Hoodlife Virus):

....Freewebs? Ooh, sounds official! Sign me up!

It gets better - the next frame of the video says.....

If you can't read the awesomely selected font / background combo (because nothing says "stupid" like WHITE ON WHITE), the message reads as follows....

"If you get this comment it is an ad to go there and completely harmless".

.....mm, smell like Myspace spam messages much? Let's step off - or was it jump off - to the Freewebs site and see what's on offer.

Not a lot, all things considered. The following screenshot will illustrate exactly why you should steer clear of this thing:


"Use your IP Address as a password......(put the) IP Address in you signup mail".

...I'm sorry, there's a voice in my head and it's saying HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

It would be the biggest coincidence in the world if there were two completely different individuals running round with a penchant for gangsta rap calling themselves "yogangsta50", also creating and editing videos with the exact same style as the O222333 douchebag. With that in mind, I'm going to make a huge assumption and suggest avoiding the above site like the plague would be a good idea.

Why?

Oh, I don't know, but how about a little bit of this:

"AVOID THE URL freewebs.com/yogangsta50/newstuff.htm (Paperghost note of doom: Obviously, this is where the "Myspace Protect" thing is now hosted).

I've been going on different forums and I've been seeing messages saying: "check out this new(game) I made!" this message tries to trick you into downloading the so called game. Once you vist the url you are prompted for your first name. Then you have to click a button called "click me". Once you click the button your I.P address is stolen and sent to someone via email. Then you are redirected to Spysheriff.com."

The Alt Text for the image spam is particularly humorous:


...."Download Bait"? Wow, these guys are smart. Effectively, we have

1) A bunch of random clowns making a bunch of crappy videos advertising (what are presumably) their own lame games.

2) Those videos then get hawked across Social Networking / Video / Two-Point OH NOES sites, along with a bunch of other Gangsta vids and (more bizarrely) clips telling you how to protect yourself from virus attacks AND create those same viruses. Doh.

3) From the feedback on the various forums from people who "enjoyed" the GTA Hoodlife game, it looks reasonable to assume they switched the download a little while after making the game available, stuffing it with infection fun.

4) A quick detour to make some money via rogue antispyware apps.

5) They then presumably use this "Myspace Protect" thing to pimp "Download this, lol" messages across Myspace profiles. At least, I think that's what is supposed to happen. Nothing seems to work, so maybe leet coding skills aren't this guy's forte.

Then again, he's somewhere between sixteen and eighteen years old.

Check out some of his posts, including an angry extract from someone who caught him in the act:


...heh.

Now, do I dare pick on a sixteen year old kid?

The simple answer is, DAMN RIGHT.

.....Bang! Bang! Driveby coming through! With his primary advertisement distribution method crippled (thanks, Google) and me applying sexy amounts of pressure to all of his other forum haunts, all that's left is to ring up P Diddy and get him to create a dreadful tribute song.

Bonus points if he doesn't bludgeon a Sting classic this time round, too.