Re: Virus - Bin Laden Suicide Hoax

From: Tom Randy (Sorry_at_spamsucks.net)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:16:52 GMT

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 05:24:11 -0400, John Beaderstadt wrote:

> Reposted from sci.astro.amateur.
>
> An added bit of interest for this group *may* be the security analyst.
> Is this a relation? Can't be the same one, can it?
>
>
>
> SEATTLE (Reuters) - 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.
>
>
> 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 (news - web sites) 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 (news - web sites) virus that enticed readers to
> open a
> file that unleashed malicious software code.

LOL, I doubt it. But if anyone could help the "real" Chris Kraft is the
man!

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