Wishful thinking strikes again, this time in the form of Osama bin Laden's supposed suicide. The pros at Sophos are on the job.
Experts at Sophos have warned computer users that a file posing as photographic evidence that Osama Bin Laden has killed himself is in fact infected by the Hackarmy Trojan horse.Posted by Alan at July 23, 2004 05:31 PMThousands 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, but that the photographs have not been officially made public as the USA wishes to verify it is Bin Laden. The messages point to a website where a file can be downloaded, purporting to contain photographs. In reality the file contains a Trojan horse which can allow hackers to gain remote control of an innocent computer.