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Ellie
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Jammer dis in Engels, maar ek is nie lus om dit te vertaal nie.
Wat my verstand bokkel, is hoe mense nog in hierdie dag en tyd n aanhangsel
kan oopmaak as hulle nie weet wie dit stuur nie.
Ellie
Virus purporting bin Laden suicide hits Web
Virus designed to lure readers into opening a file
Saturday, July 24, 2004 Posted: 5:31 AM EDT (0931 GMT)
SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- A virus purporting to show images of Osama
Bin Laden's suicide has popped up on the Internet, 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 on Friday.
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 September 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.
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