Virus Purporting Bin Laden Suicide Hits Web

[Kooperman]

Virus Purporting Bin Laden Suicide Hits Web

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.

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[Ken]

There are plenty of Viruses and Trojans all around the newsgroups; usually in scr (Screen Saver) or exe, etc.. format.

You see, the kicker is not only do you have to download the message, you also have to open/execute the file (to my knowledge); unless you are somehow redirected to a URL or something, and are infected from a website.

I mostly see SCR/EXE files on the newsgroups, and I believe this one is an SCR file.