Virus Creators Exploiting London Bombings

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Less than a week after tragedy struck the city of London, a Windows virus is being distributed through an e-mail that claims to have amateur footage filmed minutes after one of the bombs exploded in the London Underground subway system.  The letter reportedly looks like a newsletter from CNN, with the subject line reading, “TERROR HITS LONDON”.  The body of the letter tells the reader to click on the attached file, “London terror moovie.avi”, to view the amateur footage.

Anyone clicking on the file will not be shown a video. Instead their PC will be infected by the as yet un-named Trojan.  Next time the compromised machine is started, it will report in to the virus creator and become part of a spam-sending zombie network.  Because it relies on people clicking on the attachment, the malicious program can affect Windows 2000, 95, 98, Me, NT, XP and Windows Server 2003.

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