Osama bin laden dead email virus

The warning comes as security companies said that they've spotted the first samples of malicious software disguised as photos of the dead Al Qaeda leader. Security vendor F-Secure said Tuesday that criminals are e-mailing a password-stealing Trojan horse program called Banload to victims, and Symantec said it's seen criminals spamming victims with links to fake "Osama dead" news articles that launch Web-based attacks on visitors.

But these photos have not been released publicly. Scammers have also used a technique called search engine poisoning to try to trick search engines into listing hacked Web pages that are loaded with malware in their search results. The FBI warned Internet users to watch out for fake messages on social network sites and to never download software in order to view a video. Fraudulent messages often feature misspellings, poor grammar, and non-standard English," the FBI warning stated.

As a major international news event, bin Laden's death has shown the amazing way information can spread online. Many learned of the terrorist leader's death through Twitter, where the story first broke, or Facebook.

But it also underscores how the unfiltered media can quickly spread bad information worldwide. FakeAV and spam. What it does do is spam your wall with messages trying to get people to do the same thing.

Do not be fooled. Do not copy and paste, this or indeed any script asking you to do so in order to see ANY video. One thing I did find humorous was the message bar showing the scan progress, which I have circled on the following picture:. I am on a MacBook. Try harder n00bs. It crashed immediately when opened but managed to make changes to the PC I was analyzing it on.

Lots of changes to startup items, location settings and such:. I uploaded the whole RegShot diff file to PasteBin. Should you like to view it, just go here. Stay updated. Stay informed. We were also united in our resolve to protect our nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice. And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.

In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government, which had given bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven and support. Yet Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world. And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.

Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan.

And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body. Yet his death does not mark the end of our effort. We must —- and we will -- remain vigilant at home and abroad. As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not —- and never will be -— at war with Islam.

Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own.