Bin Laden's Death Being Used To Spread Malware

wiredmikey writes "Following the successful operation by US forces to kill Osama bin Laden, Internet users are searching in the masses for any details about the incident they can find. Cyber-criminals know this and have already been at work to 'poison' common search results hoping to gain access to people's computers and infect them with malware."

I also heard that

[W1sdOm_tOOth]

Elton John is already recording a tribute - "Sandals in the Bin"

Re:And this is news how?

[webmistressrachel]

Yes....

And I'll LMAO if this comment gets modded "Informative". Sillier things have happened on /. - I'm pretty sure that the mod system is a placebo for the users, and that it's really a random number generator, or some of the pigeons from PageRank moonlighting...

Re:Yep - got me

[RDW]

'Was searching for Bin Laden news, found a program called "Fox Tab" in the search results, and discovered this PDF creation tool was actually a trojan.'

Even worse, I was searching for 'MILF' and I got a legitimate news story about Bin Laden:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/05/02/11/moro-rebels-call-bin-laden-martyr [abs-cbnnews.com]

("...He added that bin Laden's death has no direct effect on the MILF.")

Be careful out there!

Re:Yep - got me

[smelch]

You can tell this one is a real woman, look how much she talks but how little she says.

MODS

[TapeCutter]

I'm ugly, I'm wierd, and I post crap

+1 informative.

Re:Evil scumbags

[halivar]

Let us at least agree that Osama died as he lived: violently and without mercy.