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Beware sober worm bearing gifts

Mar 8, 2004 12:39AM PST

By John Leyden
Posted: 08/03/2004 at 12:54 GMT

Watch out for a virus which poses as a security fix for the infamous MyDoom worm.

Sober-D arrives in the form of an email with the subject line "Microsoft Alert: Please Read!" and an attached Zip file with a malicious executable. Users who are duped into running this payload get their PCs infected by the virus and contribute to the further spread of the worm.

If the worm determines it is being sent to a German email address, it presents itself in German.

Sober-D, first spotted this morning (8 March), is spreading, albeit on a modest scale. Most anti-virus firms rate it as a low-to -medium risk. Once again, this is a Windows-only menace.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/36081.html

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