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Spammers exploit Jacksons death

Death of Micheal Jackson's shocked the entire world and his fans.It is the end of era.Hackers and spammers are using his name and death to spread malware . Sophos encountered a mass-mailing worm that sends spam messages with the below characteristics: Subject: Remembering Michael Jackson Attached file: Michael songs and pictures.zip this is email comes from sarah@michaeljackson.com ,saying that the attached file contain secret songs of Michael Jackson and his photos. When you open the attachment,it spreads malware to your computer,whenever your computer get infected.it will be spreading the worm to the other internet users.Besides spreading via email,this malware is also capable spreading as an Autorun component on USB memory sticks (an increasingly common trend for malware as use of these devices has become more and more popular). Sophos software detects this malware as Mal/ZipMal-B and Mal/VB-AD. In 2004 a Trojan horse was spammed out which contains photographic evidence of Ja...
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