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FYI: I got about 2 dozen of these in my inbox today. I didn't read them, they were deleted by Cloudmark SpamNet. However, it was tempting to take a look and see what the hype was all about. Instead I chose CNN where the headlines had nothing to say about Osama Bin Laden, So I quickly determined this was a scam. After reading eWeek Article, it appears the email is much worse than I originally thought. It leads to a trojan that allows spammers to send even more spam -- using your computer ""Just got this from CNN Osama Bin Laden has just been captured! A video and some pictures have been released. Go to the link below for pictures, I will update the page with the video as soon as I can: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/pics/ God Bless America!"
Users who click on the URL in the message are taken to what looks like an ad for Viagra. But the Web page also attempts to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Exlorer to download a file named Exploit.exe, which contains a Trojan called Small.B, according to an analysis of the threat by Panda Software, based in Glendale, Calif."