Reddit’s #1 story loads a Trojan onto your computer
May 25th, 2007
A story which was #1 on Reddit’s homepage apparently loaded a Trojan onto your computer. The story titled “IN 1985 New Zealand eliminated agricultural subsidies. What happens next?” has now been deleted from Reddit after a Reddit user made other users aware of it by submitting the headline below:
Reddi users be careful. The current #1 item on the home page (about the New Zealand agricultural subsidies) loads a trojan on your computer. I just confirmed this on three seperate PCs. Click on the link to read more about the Trojan in the comments section. It does make you wonder how the story reached the front page in the first place!

















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