Between Apple, Brad Pitt, Viral Marketing And Award That Break The Window.

Why Brad Pitt?

Movie star Brad Pitt has shoved Paris Hilton off the top of a list neither will have coveted being on. A fan entering Pitt’s name in a search engine now has a startling one in five chance of finding a malware-hosting site instead, says McAfee. – Pc World 21 September 2008

If you search for pictures, wallpapers, screensavers or even info on Brad Pitt you have an 18% chance of infecting your PC with spam, spyware or whatever virus creeps can come up with. – Shine, 21 September 2008

one in five chance of finding a malware-hosting site instead,  Techworld, 17 September 2008

Why Apple?

McAfee isn’t for Macs, so there’s no word on the risk for Apple users. – Shine, 21 September 2008

So The Award Goes To?

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears are the subjects of a virus scam that is attempting to recruit computers for a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft. – CNET News 31 March 2005.

(Brad Pitt top the chart for three consecutive years)

Beyonce and Heidi Montag topped the list for women. – news.com.au, 17 September 2008.

So Who Break The Window?

ITVibes in their report mentioned that

“attempts to launch a distributed denial of service attack against the Windows Update web site used by millions of computer users around the world. Additionally, the Ahker-F worm attempts to disable security-related software and block access to anti-virus web sites.”

No Back To Viral Marketing

I have talked so much about viral marketing and how to launch a viral content with some successful cases. Here are two post I have written previously on viral content:

• It Time To Launch The Viral Content Via Viral Marketing
• How A Viral Content Save A Small Business – The Classic Cookie Company.

While pursuing a known strategy for making your content viral, I don’t condone such tactic use by hacker and virus developer. Like I mentioned in my previous post we should adapt.

Three Simple Rules for viral marketing (make some money from it)

• Identity your target group (Brad Pitt Fanatic or Apple Fanatic)
• Understand what tick them off ( in this post what tick the group is Brad Pitt and Apple vulnerability)
• Distribute or give what they want (“Watch Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt caught on TAPE! SEXY CLIP! WATCH IT!”)
• Ripe the reward, recognition or satisfaction (total virus domination or total art (and geek) domination)
• Offered or tied with some the solutions (sell antivirus software that come with paid update or software that only your group can use, Apple longtime strategy).

Try this simple strategy and see if you can get your content become viral and make some money from it.

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