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. Sober.P — which security companies have variously tagged as Sober.N, Sober.O or Sober.S — travels as an attachment in emails...
[May 9, 2005, 12:45]
Europe threatened by Sober 'epidemic'
News Sober.P, first detected on Monday, now accounts for 77 percent of all viruses detected by Sophos's threat-monitoring stations worldwide, the British security company said on Tuesday. Sober.P may end 2005 as one of the worst viruses.
[May 4, 2005, 9:25]
Another Sobering thought for PC users
News Sober.P, which operates in a similar fashion to other Sober worms, uses a subject header in an email to try to entice people into opening an attachment. Sober.P is very similar to Sober.M. A new variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm has been...
[May 3, 2005, 8:55]
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 comes out of hibernation to spread hate
News Sober.Q appears to be downloaded by machines infected by Sober.P… If this is the case, the Sober.P author or authors could have remote command-and-control capabilities over a large network of infected machines.
[May 16, 2005, 9:25]
Sober worm now 4 percent of all email
News Sober.P - which security companies have variously tagged as Sober.N, Sober.O or Sober.S - travels as an attachment in emails written in English and German. One in every 22 emails circulating the Internet on Wednesday contained the latest version of...
[May 4, 2005, 18:10]
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]
Latest Sober variants are far from friendly
News Sober.O and Sober.P both spread through email attachments and affects Windows operating systems, according to antivirus company Two new variants of the Sober worm were detected on Thursday morning. In the last 12 hours, Sober.O has become the...
[October 6, 2005, 13:40]
Paris Hilton worm spreads
News The mass-mailing worm Sober-K is currently the third most commonly encountered virus, making up 10 percent of all viruses detected in the last 24 hours, Sophos reported. This latest variant of the Sober worm may catch out the unwary as they open...
[February 23, 2005, 15:30]
Christmas number one virus plays on
News W32/Zafi-D: 30.8 percent (Third month at number one)W32/Netsky-P: 22.3 percentW32/Zafi-B: 9.7 percentW32/Bagle-BK: 5.2 percent (New entry)W32/Netsky-D: 4.2 percentW32/Netsky-Z: 3.8 percentW32/Sober-K: 3.4 percent (New entry)W32/Sobig-F: 2.5...
[March 2, 2005, 13:40]
Sober climbs November worm charts
Talkback I couldnt agree with you more! I run a computer shop in Cornwall for Re-UseIT, and 95% of our repair work is due to viruses and spyware attack! These are just home users. We are seeing an increase over this time last year of over 60 computers per...
[December 1, 2005, 11:21]
Sasser tops virus infections
News Sober-G (1.5 per cent) Netsky-P (11.7 per cent) The Sasser worm dominated virus charts for May, accounting for more than half the inbox infections reported during the month. According to figures from antivirus firm Sophos, the worm made up 51 per...
[June 1, 2004, 15:00]
One virus writer 'responsible for 70 percent of infections'
News The only non-Jaschan viruses in the top ten are MyDoom.A (fifth place), Zafi.B (sixth place), Sober.C (ninth place) and Bagle.A (tenth place). According to Sophos, the Sasser worm came out on top with 26.1 percent of infections, while Netsky.P...
[July 28, 2004, 17:35]
