Virus purporting Bin Laden suicide hits Web

A virus purporting to show images of Osama Bin Laden’s suicide popped up on the Internet Friday, designed to entice recipients to open a file that unleashes malicious software code, security experts said. The virus was attached to a message that was posted on over 30,000 usenet newsgroups and is not being spread via e-mail, said Web security vendor Sophos.

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