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Trojans lures with embarrassing Beckham Photo

A new Trojan attempts to score points with the popularity of David Beckham: Sophos says were thousands of messages in newsgroups and forums, published with the claim that the British soccer player was photographed in a compromising situation. When visiting the linked site, you charge, but the Trojan Troj / Army Hack-A on the PC

The rider uses Malcode the rumors about the condition of Beckham’s marriage. With the Trojans, it will be possible the attackers to remotely control the PC. A typical message reads, according to Sophos as follows:

down “David Beckham of Real Madrid was caught by photographers with his pants. Early in the morning he was photographed with a Spanish hooker in a rather compromising position. Photos yet to hit the newspapers have been released here ..

Thus translated:.. “David Beckham of Real Madrid was caught by photographers with his pants down Early this morning he was photographed in a rather compromising position with a Spanish prostitute photos that are not yet gone to the press, can be found here .. “

“Hackers and virus writers are really trying every trick to get people into downloading their malicious code,” said the virus expert Graham Cluley of the incident. In this way could the public interest in gossip about the private lives of the Beckhams lead to unpleasant computer problems.

The type of distribution is new, however, is against Trojans themselves since January this year, a protection available. The celebrity-mesh have tried many virus and Trojan writers: they attracted in recent months and years with pictures of bin Laden dead and naked Anna Kournikova, Britney Spears, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez.

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