CatoCooper13
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09:54 AEST Sat Jul 24 2004
AFP - Emails purporting to contain evidence of Osama bin Laden's suicide contain a "Trojan horse" that can allow hackers to take over infected computers, security experts warned.
"Computer users who fall for the bin Laden hoax may be hit by a Trojan horse," the antivirus firm Sophos warned, naming the new scheme the Hackarmy Trojan horse.
"Thousands of messages have been posted onto internet message boards and usenet newsgroups claiming that journalists from CNN found the terrorist leader's hanged body earlier this week," the security firm said.
The messages point to a website where a file can be downloaded, purporting to contain photographs. In reality, Sophos said, the file contains a Trojan horse which can allow hackers to gain remote control of an infected computer.
"Hackers and virus writers will try all kinds of tricks to entice people into downloading their malicious code," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos.
"It seems, this time, that the hacker has focused on the public's morbid curiosity and appetite for news on the war against terror."
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©AAP 2004
AFP - Emails purporting to contain evidence of Osama bin Laden's suicide contain a "Trojan horse" that can allow hackers to take over infected computers, security experts warned.
"Computer users who fall for the bin Laden hoax may be hit by a Trojan horse," the antivirus firm Sophos warned, naming the new scheme the Hackarmy Trojan horse.
"Thousands of messages have been posted onto internet message boards and usenet newsgroups claiming that journalists from CNN found the terrorist leader's hanged body earlier this week," the security firm said.
The messages point to a website where a file can be downloaded, purporting to contain photographs. In reality, Sophos said, the file contains a Trojan horse which can allow hackers to gain remote control of an infected computer.
"Hackers and virus writers will try all kinds of tricks to entice people into downloading their malicious code," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos.
"It seems, this time, that the hacker has focused on the public's morbid curiosity and appetite for news on the war against terror."
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©AAP 2004
Yeah -- it has its both good and bad in having curiousity. 
Just have to hope we have enough common sense to play it SAFE.