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]
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]
Another Sobering Thought For PC Users
News A new variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm has been discovered and is spreading among consumer PC users, security experts said Monday. Sober.P, which operates in a similar fashion to other Sober worms, uses a subject header in an email to try to...
[May 3, 2005, 8:55]
Sober Worm Goes Into Hibernation
News The Sober.P worm stopped spreading across the Internet on Tuesday after virus writers remotely silenced thousands of infected computers overnight, experts said on Friday. Antivirus companies now believe that the virus writers responsible for Sober...
[May 13, 2005, 12:30]
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 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]
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]
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 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]
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 February's top ten, published on Wednesday, was dominated by old viruses and contained only two new entries -- Bagle-BK and Sober-K. The Sober-K worm is sent under a number of guises, including a bogus email from the FBI and message promising...
[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) 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 cent of all reported...
[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). Sven Jaschan, self-confessed author of the Netsky and Sasser viruses, is responsible for 70 percent of...
[July 28, 2004, 17:35]
