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Virus writers have moved on from using Osama bin Laden's or Arnold Schwarzenegger's supposed suicides as a lure to trying a similar trick involving "footage" of slain American captive Nick Berg.
VXers have seeded multiple Usenet groups with messages claiming Berg is alive and well in Iraq and pointing users towards supposed video footage from al-Jazeera. In reality this file offers only the Hackarmy Trojan. Last month virus writers used the same trick to try to con users into believing the same Trojan was either a suicide note from Arnold Schwarzenegger or photographs depicting Osama Bin Laden's supposed untimely demise.
VXers have seeded multiple Usenet groups with messages claiming Berg is alive and well in Iraq and pointing users towards supposed video footage from al-Jazeera. In reality this file offers only the Hackarmy Trojan. Last month virus writers used the same trick to try to con users into believing the same Trojan was either a suicide note from Arnold Schwarzenegger or photographs depicting Osama Bin Laden's supposed untimely demise.
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