近日，西班牙一家名叫熊猫软件的电脑公司发出警告，有些黑客开始利用人们对禽流感的恐慌心态来散发电脑病毒，其具体做法是将带病毒的电子邮件的标题说成是与禽流感有关的各种信息。

    据路透社11月1日报道，该公司在其网站上表示，这种名为Naiva.A的病毒将自己伪装在电子邮件附件中的WORD文档中，邮件使用的标题多与禽流感有关，比如"禽流感在北美爆发"以及"什么是禽流感"等。当该文件被打开后，这一病毒会对电脑内原有文件进行修改和删除，并创建新文件。随后，病毒将在被感染的电脑内安装一个新的程序使黑客可以对该电脑实施远程控制。按照这家公司的说法，该病毒不会自行传播，必须通过收发电子邮件、网络下载或文件传输等手动方式才能流传开来。

    Computer hackers are exploiting fears over bird flu by releasing a computer virus attached to an email passing itself off as containing avian flu information, warned Spainish computer firm Panda Software.

    The virus Naiva.A masquerades as a word document with email subject lines such as "Outbreak in North America" and "What is avian influenza (bird flu)?", said the firm on its Web site (www.pandasoftware.com).

    When the file is opened, the virus modifies, creates and delete files. A second part of the virus installs a programme that allows hackers to gain remote control of infected computers.

    The firm said the virus can not spread on its own but needs to be manually distributed via email, Internet downlaods or file transfers.

    "They fake the email header so it looks like it comes from somewhere that's authoritative," Australian computer security specialist Allan Bell said on Tuesday.

    Bell said he had no reports of the virus in Australia.