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Beckham Virus

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Name: Lesley
Date: October 13, 2004 at 14:56:15 Pacific
OS: XP+SP2
CPU/Ram: AMD1.3GHz\768Mb
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" Virus writers are trading on interest in David Beckham to distribute their malicious wares.
Messages are circulating widely that purport to have evidence of the England captain in a compromising position.

But anyone visiting the website mentioned in the message will not see pictures of Mr Beckham but will have their computer infected by a virus.

The pernicious program opens a backdoor on a computer so it can be controlled remotely by malicious hackers. "

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3739092.stm

Lesley



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Name: Chunko
Date: October 13, 2004 at 19:36:24 Pacific
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Heh.
Guess these people are having no trouble finding new ways to infect machines.
Nice read.


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