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February 22nd, 2008, 22:41 GMT · By Vlad Constandes

"Princess Diana 'Could Have Been Killed by MI6' - Conclusions of Experts!!!"

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In case you were interested, and as a result you are reading this, you would have very likely fallen for the latest Trojan attack to hit the Internet. Receiving a message with the very same title and a "Download Now!" link inside is the sure way to get the Downloader.SQV on your computer and there's no telling of what's to come next.

Actually, there is, per se, but in regard of what
your life will be until you get the bloody thing off of your computer, your guess is as good as any. Apart from infecting your personal computer, it will also download two friends to play with, Spammer.AGF and KillFlies.BU. The first is only resending the message you have just been tricked into opening, while the second cripples certain system functions by deleting some *.sys files from the system32/ drivers directory, according to security experts at PandaLabs.

Don't be fooled by the uniqueness and short-lived success of this message until people catch on, it's not the only one circulating that's using this approach to cyber crime. Some others are out there as well, with subjects including Pamela Anderson divorcing for a third time, earthquakes in the USA, the new Jumper film, CIA torturing prisoners and the soap opera targeted "The extramarital son of John Kennedy appeared in Canada," all followed by three question marks. A Google URL is presented first, in order to make the download address less suspicious, but the end result is the same.

There's one slightly good aspect of the whole deal: you only receive this message, if you have an account on a major social network, such as Facebook and MySpace. As the two's users make for a pretty large percentage of the global Internet community, it's most likely it will catch on like the plague.

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