I got this at work today.
Several people have reported receiving suspicious emails with the
subject lines similar to : "God Bless America!", "Captured!
Finally!" and "Finally! Captured!".
The email are an attempt to get users to open the attached .zip file
by offering information about the supposed capture of Osama bin
Laden. The .zip attachment contains a new trojan virus "downloader
Trojan, Small-AXR" .
The body of the message has the description similar to the following:
"Turn on your TV. Osama Bin Laden has been captured. While
CNN has no pictures at this point of time, the military channel
(PPV) released some pictures. I managed to capture a couple of these
pictures off my TV. Ive attached a slideshow containing all the
pictures I managed to capture. I apologize for the low quality, its
the best I could do at this point of time. Hopefully CNN will have
pictures and a video soon. God bless the USA!"
Our anti-virus supplier (Symantec) is slow getting a virus
definition out on this and it has snuck through into our corporate
email system.
If you receive any messages with the above noted subject or
attachment, please do not open the email or the attachment.
Immediately delete the email and attachment from the inbox and
delete it from your deleted folder in Outlook. If you believe you
have been infected, please shut down your computer immediately and
call your technical support desk.