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Story: 'Suicidal Osama Bin Laden' recruits a zombie army

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Posted by: Anonymous (Saturday 24 July 2004, 12:58 AM)

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The authors were lambasted on a couple of the Linux newsgroups this morning... Posting information on a Linux newsgroup for a Windows Trojan shows a lot of intelligence *NOT*.

If this is evidence of their logic, it doesn't bode well for the quality of the logic in the code :-)

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>> Osama Bin Ladin was found hanged by two CNN journalists early Wedensday evening. As evidence they took several photos, some of which i have included here. As yet, this information has not hit the headlines due to Bush wanting confirmation of his identity but the journalists have released some early photos over the internet..
>> http://www.theparadise.x-y.net/OsamaFoundDead.zip

I'm having some difficulty getting the backdoor trojan in that link to run. Perhaps you could link directly to the pictures for those of us who run Linux?

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