Re: "Suicide" Messages are Trojan Horses

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From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:26:00 +0100

That explains those Arnie messages as well then ;-) 

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Trojan poses as bin Laden suicide pics
 From URL:  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/hackarmy_trojan/
By John Leyden
Published Friday 23rd July 2004 15:44 GMT
Virus writers are trying to trick users into opening a Trojan horse on
their PC by passing malicious code off as a "suicide photographs" of
Osama bin Laden. At a result, Usenet newsgroups are overflowing with
bogus messages claiming that journalists found the terrorist leader's
hanged body earlier this week.
The messages direct users to a website where a file can be downloaded,
purporting to contain photographs but in reality containing the Hackarmy
Trojan horse. Hackarmy gives virus writers control over infected
machines. The Trojan has been around for some months so users with
up-to-date AV software should be protected.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at AV firm Sophos, said: "It
looks like virus writers are trying to give it a new breath of life by
targeting Usenet." ®