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White Paper TechRepublic's Identify/React chart for Sober.I/Sober.J puts critical information for identifying and eliminating the virus right at your fingertips. The Sober mass-mailing worm uses its own SMTP engine to spread as an e-mail attachment. [25 May 2006]
Identify/React Chart: Sober.P
White Paper TechRepublic's Identify/React chart for Sober.P puts critical information for identifying and removing the virus right at your fingertips. The Sober mass-mailing worm uses its own SMTP engine to spread as an e-mail attachment, usually with a .zip... [16 May 2006]
Shut down Sober-infected PCs, ISPs urged
News Lambeth added: "Our anti-spam systems, which block more than 1.5 billion spam emails each day, block a large number of emails containing links to the Sober virus in the first place. ISPs were urged on Monday to check their user traffic patterns to... [10 Jan 2006]
Sober attack shouldn't bite, say antivirus experts
News The Sober attack predicted to occur on 6 January should not be a problem, antivirus experts said on Wednesday. As reported last month, machines that were infected by Sober in November have the potential to download malicious code from certain... [04 Jan 2006]
Was your business at risk for 56 days this year?
News IronPort claims businesses were unprotected against Bagle, Goldun, MyDoom, MyTob and Sober and their variants for a total of 1,335 hours - or nearly 56 days. The company claims CA, Kaspersky Labs, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec and Trend Micro were... [19 Dec 2005]
Sober virus code cracked by security firms
News Antivirus companies say they have cracked an algorithm that was being used by the Sober worm to "communicate" with its author. The latest variant of the Sober worm caused havoc in November by duping users into executing it by masking itself as... [12 Dec 2005]
Expect worms in the New Year, say experts
News A new outbreak of Sober 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 on 22... [08 Dec 2005]
Sober alert over Paris Hilton 'attachment'
News It's a minor modification of the "Sober" virus that has flared up several times over the past year. A new variant of the Sober worm made the network rounds on Tuesday, attempting to entice people into clicking on attachments purporting to be... [23 Nov 2005]
Virus alert: Sober trio in the wild
News There are at least three new variants of the Sober worm spreading across the internet via email messages. The new variants of Sober, a worm that first appeared in 2003, are capable of disabling antivirus programs, according to Finland-based company... [16 Nov 2005]
Virus Top 10: Sober return topples Zafi
News The return of Sober (variant N) has seen it rocket to the top of the current threat list, heading the chart of most prolific viruses during the past month. IT managers in their daily firefight against viruses saw a massive spike in the instances of... [01 Jun 2005]
Virus alert: Sober spreads hate mail
News Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads right-wing messages in German and English, appeared over the weekend. Scott Chasin, chief technology officer at email security specialists MX Logic, said the latest variant of Sober was being... [16 May 2005]
Sober virus now infects one in 22 emails
News One in every 22 emails circulating on the internet contains the latest version of the Sober worm, according to statistics from a UK antivirus company. Sober.P - which security companies have variously tagged as Sober.N, Sober.O or Sober.S - travels... [05 May 2005]
Love Bug legacy shows users still fall for false promises
News This week saw the release of the latest Sober variant which exploited the clamour for World Cup tickets to entice users to click on the attachment. It was a self-propagating mass mailer like so many we've seen since but the real interest was the... [04 May 2005]
Sober worm lures football fans with 'free tickets'
News A variant of the Sober virus was discovered on Monday that attempts to fool people into executing its payload by pretending to be an email from football world governing body FIFA offering free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany. [03 May 2005]
Sober worm makes a comeback
News Virus writers have resurrected the Sober worm with a new variant that is spreading quickly over the internet. Sophos said that the new Sober variant was the fifth most reported virus over the last 24 hours, closely followed by versions of Zafi and... [20 Apr 2005]
