The obituary Moamar Gadhafi made ​​the arena for distributing malware. Similar to when Osama bin Laden is dead, Internet criminals take a chance with a hot topic for the spread of malicious programs.

Antivirus company Sophos found Moamar obituaries via email inadvertently infiltrated the Internet worm or worm software. The name of the malicious files found with the name Bloody Photos_Gadhafi_Death \ Gadhafi? Rar.scr made ​​as if to is the file containing the image compression.

Fill complete message from the email worm:

Subject: Fw: AFP Photo News: Bloody Photos: Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s Death

Message body:

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s Death

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the most wanted man in the world, has been killed, the country’s rebel government claimed Oct. 20. The flamboyant Tyrant WHO terrorized his country and much of the world During his 42 years of despotic rule was cornered by insurgents in the town of Sirte, where Gadhafi Had been born and a stronghold of his supporters.

Attached file: Bloody Photos_Gadhafi_Death.rar

When it is opened and activated, the worm will infiltrate into the computer system. And perform a remote computer via IRC botnet network.

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