Police are warning computer users to be wary of a computer virus disguised as news from the 7th July bombings in London. The Police Department Cyber Crimes Unit is warning of a "Trojan horse" virus that began appearing in e-mails less than a day after the terrorist attack in London.

Police say it arrives in e-mail with the subject line "TERROR HITS LONDON.".
Sergeant Tim Stadler says officers haven't received complaints yet, but says it may only be a matter of time and officials want to give people advance notice.
The virus is designed to resemble a CNN newsletter and the e-mail asks the recipient to open "attachments of unique amateur videoshots."

When executed, the attachment copies itself to the user's system then attempts to obtain a list of e-mail servers the machine has access to and starts to use them to send spam.

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Source: www.kfor.com

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