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Sober climbs November worm charts
Talkback I'm currently receiving about 800 returned Sober virus-laden emails a day. They've been sent using spurious names before the URL. This has been going on for 3 weeks and is an absolute pain - no punishment is too great for these malware guys.
[December 1, 2005, 11:58]
Sober worm now 4 percent of all email
News One in every 22 emails circulating the Internet on Wednesday contained the latest version of the Sober worm, according to latest statistics from a UK antivirus company. Sober.P - which security companies have variously tagged as Sober.N, Sober.O or...
[May 4, 2005, 18:10]
Sober worm still swamping email systems
News The Sober.P worm is still spreading fast and now makes up 4.65 percent of all emails, according to the latest results from a UK antivirus company on Friday morning. Sophos reported earlier this week that Sober.P appears to turn off Symantec's...
[May 6, 2005, 13:55]
Sober worm clogs Hotmail connections
News The pesky Sober worm is to blame for disrupting email traffic between Comcast account holders and users of Microsoft-based email, Redmond said on Friday. A variant of Sober known as Win32/Sober.Z@mm is pummelling servers at Hotmail and MSN with...
[December 5, 2005, 8:00]
Sober worm hits new heights
News The Sober.P worm is circulating the Internet in greater quantities than ever, according to an antivirus company on Monday. Those have been big viruses, but have been dwarfed by the Sober worm," he said.
[May 9, 2005, 12:45]
Sober worm poised to strike again
News A new outbreak of the Sober worm may be coming, security experts have warned, even as email systems worldwide work to get rid of the last infestation of the mass-mailing worm. The next attack is hard-coded in the version of Sober that hit the Net...
[December 8, 2005, 9:00]
Sober worm turns to Paris
News A new variant of the Sober worm made the network rounds Tuesday, attempting to entice people into clicking on attachments purporting to be threats from the law enforcement agency or videos clips of the hotel heiress and her reality TV co-star...
[November 23, 2005, 8:45]
Sober worm impersonates high-tech cops
News The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has warned computer users not to fall victim to the latest Sober worm attack, which is now spreading via an email that pretends to come from the cybercrime-fighting police unit.
[November 29, 2005, 12:40]
Sober.C plans to spoil party
News Antivirus companies are warning of a virulent new worm, Sober.C, which spreads by mailing itself to its victim's contacts. The first copy of the virus appears to have been sent from Germany, and Sober.C appears to be most active in that region at...
[December 23, 2003, 8:05]
Sober comes out of hibernation to spread hate
News Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads right-wing messages in German and English, appeared over the weekend. Security firms are warning that they have received hundreds of thousands of emails generated by Sober.Q in its first 24 hours.
[May 16, 2005, 9:25]
All quiet on the Sober front
News The Sober attack predicted for Friday has not happened, possibly because publicity earlier this week about the potential of an outbreak. PCs that were infected by Sober in November had the potential to download malicious code from certain Web sites...
[January 6, 2006, 17:10]
Don't fear the Sober, just prepare for it
News Security administrators need not worry about the effects of the predicted Sober attack on 5 January, as long as they take precautions and strip infections from their systems, security experts said on Friday.
[December 12, 2005, 12:25]
Sober worm poised to strike again
Talkback I am glad to be made aware of the upcoming bloom of "Sober"-infected email.but what can users DO to prevent their computers from being infected or from infecting other computers if their computers have already been compromised?
[December 8, 2005, 19:28]
Sober climbs November worm charts
News The emails carry new variants of the Sober worm in an attachment which, when opened, infects the recipient's computer. The Sober worm still accounts for close to 43 percent of all viruses being reported to the British antivirus firm Sophos.
[December 1, 2005, 8:05]
Thanksgiving will bring a Sober hangover
News The latest outbreak of the Sober worm will accelerate as US computer users turns the PCs back on after the Thanksgiving holiday, security firm MessageLabs warned on Friday. Sober-Y spreads in emails that pretend to come from the FBI or which claim...
[November 25, 2005, 16:25]
Sober worm turns to Paris
Talkback It or a buddy of Sober has changed my home page to an alternating kiddy porn site. Boy! Would I like 5 minutes alone with these guys who dream up and send out these viruses. I fell for the FBI gambit and now can't get my anti virus to work.
[November 26, 2005, 4:44]
Europe threatened by Sober 'epidemic'
News The latest Sober worm has spread rapidly in the past 24 hours and now makes up two-thirds of virus traffic on the Internet, according to security experts. Sober.P, first detected on Monday, now accounts for 77 percent of all viruses detected by...
[May 4, 2005, 9:25]
All quiet on the Sober front
Talkback Hey dipshit sober doesnt become active until 7PM est
[January 6, 2006, 19:32]
Latest Sober variants are far from friendly
News Two new variants of the Sober worm were detected on Thursday morning. Sober.O and Sober.P both spread through email attachments and affects Windows operating systems, according to antivirus company In the last 12 hours, Sober.O has become the...
[October 6, 2005, 13:40]
Europe threatened by Sober 'epidemic'
Talkback Sober.P, what a rubbish name if I made a virus I'd call it something really nasty like bumhole.breaker or finger.snapper
[May 4, 2005, 22:53]
