More Storm "Headlines"

Trojaned spam keeps on coming. New subject lines include:

Boy eats fried rat, pictures
Obama admits extra-marital affair
Son Stabbed to Death, Mother Injured
Madonna admits Timberlake affair
Shark attack off Australia, 2 dead
Car accidents. Statistic for 2007
Spam King murder
Expert advice for banning blackheads
VideoFemale bombers kill 57 in Iraq
Oil prices set to plummet
Tropical storm watch issued for Florida
Italy charges Google for espionage
Secrets to being famous
Explosion rock Israel, Gulf war imminent
Pollution reaches dangerous levels in California
Dark Knight rules 2nd weekend
Finger nails found in hamburgers
Reid Ashe III killed in skydiving accident
Iran Executes 29 Convicts in One Day
Microsoft new software to fight against piracy

The links contained in the email point to various locations; all of which attempt to trick the visitor into downloading and running a bogus viewer or Flash update (for example, video.exe, watch.exe, get_flash_update.exe). If they do, they then become the latest victim of the botnet, their machine now becoming yet another computer used to attack others. And the cycle continues...

Break the chain by being smart. Get your news from reputable sources, don't follow links received unexpectedly, and don't accept files from websites you aren't intimately familiar with. Remember that up to 90% or greater of all email is spam and a good portion of that spam has malicious intent.