Once users clicked links in posts making this false claim about Clint Eastwood, they were led to misleading articles that showed dangerous pop-up alerts.
Clint Eastwood attends the"Richard Jewell" Atlanta Screening at Rialto Center of the Arts on Dec. 10, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. In early December 2022, we received mail from readers that asked if motion picture actor and director Clint Eastwood was dead. The rumor stemmed from numerous Facebook posts that said,"05 Minutes Ago. RIP Clint Eastwood. Sad News For Clint Eastwood Family. Goodbye Clint Eastwood.
However, we found no credible reporting that said Eastwood was dead, nor did we find any information that indicated he was sick, injured, or hospitalized.purveyors were using his image and likeness as a way of luring users to try to infect their devices with malware. Once users clicked the links in the posts, they were led to misleading articles that showed dangerous pop-up alerts. Many of those pop-ups asked users to install Adobe Flash Player, even though the product wasin 2020. Other pop-ups mentioned updating Google Chrome or installing the Opera GX web browser.
One of the pop-up notices read,"A security update to Adobe Flash Player was recently released." That was false. Another one didn't read quite right and said,"Your computer should have crash shut down your Chrome browser." We're not quite sure what this alert was supposed to mean.malicious URL scanner
. The tool is quick, free, and easy, and is available for anyone to use. The scan's results said that the links were"very risky," scoring them at a level of 85 out of 100. We previously reported similar stories for death hoaxes involving film actors
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