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'McVeigh Virus' Lurks As Execution Video
Old Hacker Program Can Take Control Of Your Computer
WASHINGTON, 2:32 p.m. EDT June 12, 2001 -- If you get an offer to view a
video of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's execution, be careful.
It probably isn't a video clip, just an old computer trick.
In an Internet chat room on Monday, hours after McVeigh's death, some
participants went to a Web link to see a bootleg video of the execution
only to be duped into downloading a malicious program that can allow a
hacker to take control of another computer.
Brad Chapman, a Brigham Young University computer science student, said
that by visiting a Web site at Internet provider Concentric Networks,
his computer downloaded the program, known as SubSeven.
Chapman didn't run the program, but instead analyzed it and found out
what it really does.
April Goostree, anti-virus manager at computer security firm McAfee.com,
said that SubSeven is an old program that is disguised as many things.
"It was just a matter of time before somebody would attach McVeigh's
name to it," Goostree said.
Goostree said that almost any anti-virus program will detect the
program. Still, SubSeven and its variants are the most common threat to
home computers, according to McAfee.com research.
The execution of McVeigh in Terre Haute, Ind., was broadcast to a
federal facility in Oklahoma City, where victims of his bombing could
watch. The FBI said that there is no indication that the signal was
intercepted.
Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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