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Breaking News: Virus Masquerades As CNN Headlines

Anti-virus firm Sophos has reported that a new virus, Crowt-A, is actually ripping off headlines from CNN, and using them as both the subject line of the spam containing the virus, as well as the file name for the virus payload itself.

Not only that, but the virus constantly changes the headlines it uses, to keep them contemporary.

Nasty!

Fortunately, says Sophos, only a small number of instances of the virus have been sighted, so far.

CNN itself has reported on this, but did anybody believe the headline?

Interesting thought…

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