Worm spreads false news of President Bush's death
A worm posing as several fake breaking news stories, including the death of US president George W Bush, has been spammed to email recipients in a worldwide campaign, it was reported today.
On the day when the Republican administration faced disappointing results in the US mid-term elections, the Dref-N worm attaches itself to emails with subject lines such as ?White House news' and ?Incredible news', and attempts to entice email users into clicking on a malicious attachment, claiming to include details of a major news story.
It's reported that the email contains text claiming that president George W Bush is dead and urges people to read the infected file for further details, but it actually disables the Windows firewall and allows hackers to access the innocent user's computer.
Other false stories include the outbreak of a nuclear war and the assassination of the Russian president Vladimir Putin.
