A Chinese anti-virus company has warned against free downloads of Ang Lee’s steamy spy thriller, “Lust, Caution,” saying several hundred sites offering the service were embedded with viruses.
Lust, Caution, the latest film from Ang Lee, the Oscar-winning director, has become a box-office hit in China. But it is also attracting tens of millions of viewers who are downloading pirated versions of the film, containing at least seven minutes of bedtime action cut by China’s censors.
Internet security experts say hackers spread online virus either by attacking some medium and small film download websites and putting virus into them or by using certain software to tie the film with virus.
As a rising number of Chinese download films from the Internet, the problem of hackers spreading the virus becomes “more thorny”, they say.
The issue highlights emerging security problems as a growing number of Chinese download movies from the Internet, it said.
“Hackers are taking advantage of popular entertainment hotspots for movies and music to attack personal computers and spread viruses,”
