I received a clever email this morning that would love to have me infect my computer with a virus.

The email suggests that the Chinese government is purposefully covering up the number of victims effected in the recent natural distasters in China. The email includes a link to a Web page which states:

A new powerful disaster just occurred in China. The most deadly, 9 magnitude, earthquake took away million of lives in the heart of China, Beijing. Rapidly growing panic paralyzed life of Chinese capital. 2008 Olympic Games are under the threat of failure. Click on the video to see the details of this terrible disaster and choose either “Open” or “Run”. 

The video below it is actually just an image. Clicking on it will prompt you to download a file named beijing.exe — a virus meant to undermine your computer turning it into a spamming machine.

If you receive this email, do not visit the site. Invisible code uses vulnerbilities in unique ways and can download the virus into your system just by visiting.

In case you’re wondering, the screen shot above was taken on a non Windows computer.

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