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Virus Purporting Bin Laden Suicide Hits Web

SEATTLE - 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 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.

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:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

What will they think of next?

awesome, first virus, you KNOW many republicans will get.

email away boys!

Feeding off the gullibility of common people.

Too funny

Damn Fletch you're inching up to 40K posts. Wowzers!!

damn, time to watch out for it

:jester

You should of been running linux.:Graucho :2 cents:

bet it will be highly successful

You know all the Arabs will open it. :Graucho

must be an inexperience dude.

Bush going down would have been alot more successful.

:mad:

It still boggles my mind looking at this idiot, that operating out of a fucking cave in the middle of nowhere sending orders by towelhead curriers he is able to wield so much power over the entire world right now.

The United States spends over $1 Billion a day on its military and this bobo, 3 years after 9/11, still runs the planet's "fear" show from a lone dark hole in a mountain.

Amazing . . . .

We have always been at war with Oceania

Maybe it's part of the plan. He's the Anti-Christ for Bush to capture just before the elections perhaps?

OMG KRL, I know you are smarter than this. You have to have read about this guy's life and how he started. It's a little more than some fucking uneducated bum living in a cave!!! Come on baby!!!

OBL was splattered across the wall of a cave in Tora Bora in December 2001.
He hasn't been running the show for a long time.

Liberals will fall for this!!!! Conspiracy Theory is their middle name!!!

Any moron knows theses fuckers do not commit suicide, they martyr themselves.!!! He wants his 72 virgins, or something like that!!! :1orglaugh

Yeh, I know he's smart. Didn't mean idiot in the intelligence way.

And I know he has money up the kazoo too.

I was more addressing the way he's able to operate so effectively by remote control means.