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Quote From HoaxBusters:
Bin Laden Warning Hoax
August 2005
This message is partly correct. The body of the message describes a real Trojan that was being distributed in July of 2004. The message included a link to a Trojan program that got installed when you clicked the link. Recently (Aug. 2005) variants of this Trojan message have been seen. Thus the body is largely correct and the link to snopes takes you to a description of the original Trojan message.
The headline of the message is totally wrong. Opening the e-mail will not instantly infect your computer and cause it to crash. Opening the e-mail and then clicking on the link will cause your computer to be infected with the Trojan but will not likely make it crash. If you have an antivirus package installed and have kept it up to date, the antivirus program will stop the Trojan. If you have kept your system up to date, the hole that allowed the Trojan to install itself in Windows will also be closed and the Trojan will not work.
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