print versionOn 25 October a spam list was registered on the Internet with the subject "ATTENTION!!! President of Russia has dead". The link from the letter supposedly leads to BBC news, but when the link is accessed one of the latest Trojan horses starts to download, Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.uj. The virus enables any harmful code to be launched on the infected computer. To date this method, using "loud headlines" has been practised mostly by intruders from the West. However, Kaspersky Lab experts believe that the report of the death of the Russian president in broken English tells us the authors of the virus are Russian.
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