{"id":858,"date":"2005-06-03T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2005-06-04T02:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=858"},"modified":"2005-06-03T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2005-06-04T02:50:53","slug":"fake-bin-laden-e-mail-hides-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Fake Bin Laden E-mail Hides Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4607203.stm\">Forewarned<\/a> is forearmed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Users are being warned not to open junk e-mail messages claiming Osama Bin Laden has been captured.<\/p>\n<p>The messages claim to contain pictures of the al-Qaeda leader&#8217;s arrest but anyone opening the attachment will fall victim to a Microsoft Windows virus.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1 June anti-virus companies have been catching the junk mail messages in large numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Security firms fear that interest in Bin Laden&#8217;s whereabouts could spark a big outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> James Kay, chief technology officer at Blackspider, said that the company had stopped more than a million copies of the message since it first appeared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen a lot of it overnight when the US was awake,&#8221; said Mr Kay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We kind of expected that it would be targeted at the US because of the language used in it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Warnings about the fake Bin Laden arrest virus have also been issued by Panda Software and F-Secure.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability exploited by Psyme is found in Windows 2000, 95, 98, ME, NT, XP and Windows Server 2003. Users were urged to update their version of Windows to close the loophole.<\/p>\n<p>This latest virus is the third to use the name of the al-Qaeda leader to trick people into opening it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, known subject lines for the virus-laden emails are as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> God Bless America!<br \/>\nGod Bless!<br \/>\nCaptured<br \/>\nCaptured! Finally!<br \/>\nFinally!<br \/>\nFinally! Captured!<br \/>\nHe has been captured<br \/>\nGod Bless the USA!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A good rule of thumb is to be wary of any incoming attachments and to keep anti-virus software up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forewarned is forearmed. Users are being warned not to open junk e-mail messages claiming Osama Bin Laden has been captured. The messages claim to contain pictures of the al-Qaeda leader&#8217;s arrest but anyone opening the attachment will fall victim to a Microsoft Windows virus. Since 1 June anti-virus companies have been catching the junk mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}