Virus highlights Palestinian plight

NEWS The virus, contained in an email carrying the subject line "Re: Injustice", causes little damage, but could potentially bring down computer systems with a mass-mailing payload enclosed in an email attachment. The worm sends itself to the first 50 people in a user's Outlook address book, and to a number of others, including 18 Israeli government addresses. The email urges users to help stop further bloodshed between the warring nations, highlighting the death of a young Palestinian boy killed by machinegun fire from Israeli soldiers. The virus, labelled injustice.txt.vbs, is the latest online chapter in the battle between Israelis and Palestinians. Last year saw the targeted defacement of prominent websites representing each side of the crusade.