If you get an email saying “Osama Bin Laden hanged”, just delete it. An email alert doing the rounds says that the “Osama hanging” email carries a Trojan, a computer malware, embedded in it. Clicking on the photographs unleashes the Trojan that will ruin the computer’s hard disk. Cyber forensic experts said that the Trojan in the Osama e-mails will not cause much harm.
“Fake information about well known persons is often used to spread worms or Trojans through email,” said Mr U. Ram Mohan, cyber forensic expert at the AP Forensic Science Laboratory. “Anyone opening the attachments or visiting the web site will get a version of the Psyme Trojan installed on their computer,” Mr Mohan told .
The email alert warns: “The moment you open these (Osama) emails your computer will crash and you will not be able to fix it.” About this, Mr Mohan said, “It is not dangerous and can be ignored.” The virus alert was termed a hoax two years ago. It is doing the rounds again, he said. Another forensic expert of a central forensic lab said, “We have complaints from at least five persons that they have received Osama pictures carrying Trojan worm.”
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