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Spammers exploit London bombs
11 July 2005
Posted by Sean McManus
Four days after the bomb blasts in London, there is a new trojan exploiting them. An email resembling a CNN newsletter tries to trick users into opening an attachment by pretending to be amateur video footage of the attacks, antivirus firms warn. Opening the attachment installs a program that enables the computer to be remotely controlled to send spam. The email has the subject 'TERROR HITS LONDON' and an attachment that looks like it's named 'London Terror Moovie.avi'. The attachment filename has a long string of spaces to force its real file type - .exe - off screen.
# posted by Sean McManus at 5:09 PM 
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