if you encounter a file that purports to contain images of osama bin-laden committing suicide, resist the impulse to indulge.  

sophos--a leading web security vendor--issued an alert yesterday (friday july 23, 2004) after the exploit was posted to 30,000 newsgroups. 

sophos' senior security analyst, chris kraft, said the message and attachment were designed to lure unsuspecting readers, causing them to unwittingly execute malicious code that makes their windows machines vulnerable to remote utilization. 

this is a repackaged variant of an exploit that has appeared on the net previously.  kraft described it as being similar to the anna kournikova trojan.

to paraphrase samuel clemens, rumors of bin laden's demise--desirable an event as it might be--are apparently greatly exasperating as well as exaggerated

here's a link to the reuters' source article Link.