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Pretends it's not a lesbian

THE SECURITY GUARDS over at Sophos are warning the Internet At Large about a new Trojan horse, which preys on pop-music fans and perverts alike by promising pictures and intimate details about the members of Russian pop group Tatu.


Banito-BE, as the Trojan has been dubbed, is being mass-spammed to email users worldwide with the subject line 'Photos of TATU'. Attached are two promotional pictures of the ladies, named tatu_1.jpg and tatu_2.jpg, but there's also the suspiciously titled TATU.CHM. Which, as you may have guessed, is malicious.

This certainly ain't the first time celebrities have been roped into Trojan emails - Halle Berry, Anna Kournikova, Julia Roberts and Britney Spears have all been used to entice email users into dooming themselves. Graham Cluley of Sophos comments: "This celebrity-related malware has not been designed for mischief-making - its purpose is financial gain," he says. "It's vital that users ensure their anti-virus software is up-to-date, or they could risk compromising both their PCs and their personal data."

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