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By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software

Users hung by Osama suicide photos

Friday July 23, 2004
Newsgroup miscreants are posting links to alleged pictures of an Osama bin Laden hanging, claiming the photos are from CNN journalists. In reality, there is no photo, simply a backdoor Trojan designed to compromise the curious. Antivirus vendor Sophos reports.
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October 30, 2007 at 10:24 am
(1) ern g. says:

I just got another email indicating is about in the airwaves again.

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