Yes, that’s right. Mike is dead.
From TMZ:
We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived. A cardiologist at UCLA tells TMZ Jackson died of cardiac arrest.
Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive.
But, what’s more insidious than the constant coverage of his passing on every “news” outlet is the impending flood of spam. Gird your loins. It should be starting started any time now. All too often spammers rely on the death of a celebrity to ply their trade.
Today will be no different.
It’s not like there isn’t precedent for this. Back in 2005 a piece of spam made the rounds pronouncing the alleged suicide of Michael Jackson.
Well, I’m done with this nonsense. If I’m to feel bad about something, I’m going to feel bad about something of substance.
UPDATE: Well, can’t sat I didn’t call it. Just four days later and the malware is making the rounds. Not that it was a stretch. It’s interesting to note that only three AV engines, Antivir, McAfee and Sophos, could detect this one.
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