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29 June,2009 08:50 AM IST |   |  Kumar Saurav

If you think you've shed enough tears on the sudden demise of pop legend Michael Jackson, think again.


If you think you've shed enough tears on the sudden demise of pop legend Michael Jackson, think again. After the news of his death, the entertainer has become the muse of spammers across the world.
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In its latest report, Internet and IT security firm, Websense Security Labs, has discovered spam emails offering recipients links to unpublished videos and pictures of Jackson.
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King Of Spam? Spam emails with links to Jackson's videos are flooding inboxes.

The report says, "The spam email appears to offer a link to a YouTube video, but instead sends the recipient to a Trojan Downloader hosted on a compromised website."


These Trojans enable hackers to remotely access a computer system and perform desired operations like file deletion,u00a0password detection; security codes modification and credit card information leakage.

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The report adds, "One of the file on the lose called Michael.Jackson.vid-eos.scr, is hosted on a legitimate portal of a radio station in Australia."u00a0

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