Ian Halperin Film Premiere Sabotage Update, Ten Viruses Detected, Fingerprints Taken

Author: Dawn Olsen
Published: April 01, 2008 at 3:07 pm

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"His Highness Hollywood", Andrew Morton, and some chick

I have some additional information in the ongoing investigation of equipment tampering which took place during the March 25, "His Highness Hollywood" premiere in New York at the National Arts Club.

Ian Halperin, author of Hollywood Undercover, and filmmaker reported that the NAC detected TEN viruses loaded onto the NAC laptop used during the viewing of the film. If you will recall from my earlier report, Ian and the team at NAC did a scan just prior to the film's screening and the laptop used came up completely clean of viruses. In the wake of the screening fiasco, the NAC launched an official investigation into the apparent sabotage which took place and were able to identify at least one of the malicious programs as a trojan.

The NAC is also having the laptop dusted for fingerprints. Hopefully they will be able to isolate the ones responsible, although with the number of people at the event, this may prove difficult. Ian also informed me that a NEW screening of the film is scheduled to take place soon (I can't reveal the location or the date because of increased concerns about additional tampering) and that they have already assigned a team of four security personnel to guard the equipment at the next event.

Glosslip will have full exclusive coverage of that event. We will keep you posted.

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