Crowt-A, CNN Virus

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A new type of worm posing as a bulletin from CNN steals keystroke information from infected machines.
Crowt-A, as it is named duped recipients into thinking they were reading
a bona fide newsletter from CNN.
The worm installed a Trojan horse.
The antidotes have been published:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32crowta.html
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