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From: Tbdbullseye (tbdbullseye_at_aol.com)
Date: 07/24/04
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Date: 24 Jul 2004 21:28:23 GMT
SEATTLE (July 24) - A virus purporting to show images of Osama bin Laden's
suicide popped up on the Internet on Friday, designed to entice recipients to
open a file that unleashes malicious software code, security experts said.
The virus was attached to a message that was posted on over 30,000 usenet
newsgroups and is not being spread via e-mail, said Web security vendor Sophos.
AP
Virus writers are using Osama bin Laden to entice computer users to open
infected e-mails.
The U.S. government has been hunting for bin Laden since 2001, holding him
responsible for masterminding the attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, but he has not yet been found.
Chris Kraft, senior security analyst at Sophos, said the message and virus was
designed to lure unsuspecting readers into opening a file, similar to the Anna
Kournikova virus that enticed readers to open a file that unleashed malicious
software code.
"If you don't know the person or the origin of a message, you shouldn't be
opening it," Kraft said.
The fake bin Laden suicide file, when opened, unleashes a program called a
Trojan horse that makes it possible for attackers to take over infected
personal computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.
Kraft said the virus itself had already appeared on the Internet before, but
the virus writer had apparently repackaged it by saying it contained bin
Laden's suicide photos.
Previous versions of the virus have included subject lines such as "Bin Laden
toilette paper!!", "Sadam Hussein & BinLaden IN LOVE" or "Is Osama Bin Laden
BAD-LOVED?"
Some infected e-mails have contained an attachment titled
"BINLADEN_BRASIL.EXE."
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