watch out for this, as I'm alerted to in rawstory's (www.rawstory.com) headlines section.
The headline entry in rawstory links to the article (posted conscientiously by CNN, of course!) at cnn.technology.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com%2B-%2BNew%2Bvirus%2Bma
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(CNN) -- Researchers have identified a new computer virus that masquerades as news headlines from CNN's Web site.
Sophos, an anti-virus firm, says the virus -- identified as Crowt-A -- pulls headlines, subject lines and other content from CNN.com. ....
The virus'
subject line and attachment share the same name,
Sophos researchers say,
but change continually to match headlines from CNN.com's home page.
Carole Theriault, security consultant at Sophos, said ... "This latest ploy feeds on people's desire for the latest news." . . . .
In addition to emailing itself to other users, the virus also installs a "backdoor Trojan function," according to Sophos. This function can pick up and send data such as keystrokes to a remote user . . .
The article [Jan. 21] says it seems that not many computers are infected now.
However, I thought news junkies [like you and me] would want to know this is out there.