A new variant of the pesky Sober worm led the top-10 list of viruses compiled by SophosLabs this May.
The Sober-N worm, which was detected in early May, spread rapidly across about 40 countries by promising it's recipients tickets to see the 2006 World Cup in Germany. It has managed to surpass the virus Zafi-D, which had dominated the virus charts for the past five months.
To add to the problem, the Sober-Q worm, which appeared mid-May, uses computers infected by Sober-N as zombie spamming machines to spit out neo-Nazi propaganda.
"This kind of virus-spam convergence have become commonplace", says SophosLabs, of Lynnfield, Mass.
News source: Top 10 Virus List
The Sober-N worm, which was detected in early May, spread rapidly across about 40 countries by promising it's recipients tickets to see the 2006 World Cup in Germany. It has managed to surpass the virus Zafi-D, which had dominated the virus charts for the past five months.
To add to the problem, the Sober-Q worm, which appeared mid-May, uses computers infected by Sober-N as zombie spamming machines to spit out neo-Nazi propaganda.
"This kind of virus-spam convergence have become commonplace", says SophosLabs, of Lynnfield, Mass.
News source: Top 10 Virus List
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****in hackers should learn to get a job without goin to jail first!!!!!!!
Well, of course it doesn't matter to you if you are an American.
have i entered a competition for tickets? do i know anyone that might have tickets? do i even want tickets? who is this person that is emailing me? do i speak german? :-)
alas, people aren't clever enough to ask the simplest of questions when opening unsolicited email.
Last edited by 70950 on 02 Jun 2005 - 22:30
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