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[PSUs]| Monday 5th September 2005 |
The emails arrive with a variety of subject lines intended to bypass simpler spam blockers such as 'Re: g8 Tropical storm flooded New Or leans', 'Re: g7 80 percent of our city underwater' and 'Re: q1 Katrina killed as many as 80 people'.
'Receiving or reading the emails themselves does not mean you are infected,' comments Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. 'However, if users click on the link contained inside the email they will be taken to a malicious website that will try and infect their computer. Once infected the computer is under the control of remote criminal hackers who can use it to spy, steal or cause disruption."'
Windows users who follow the web link visit a website that pretends to be a fuller version of the news story. However, the site is designed to attack Microsoft's Internet Explorer software to install a variety of malicious Trojans intended to take over the victim's machine.
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