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NEWS - December 27, 2005

by roddy32 Dec 27, 2005 2:40AM PST

Old worms learn new tricks
By Joris Evers, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: December 27, 2005, 6:44 AM PT

Year in review: A seemingly endless barrage of variants of the Bagle and MyTob worms surfaced this year, but what really pummeled e-mail servers around the globe were two Sober offshoots.

The first hit in May, and the second clogged e-mail in-boxes and servers in November. Microsoft's Hotmail and MSN e-mail services had so much trouble dealing with the infected spam that messages sent to members faced an unspecified delay. Some antivirus companies predicted there will be another Sober onslaught on Jan. 5.

To the surprise of some experts, Sober's tricks to get recipients to open the malicious e-mail and attachment worked. In May, the e-mail promised a prize of free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, while in November, the bait was a Paris Hilton video or a purported FBI e-mail.

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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6009668.html?tag=zdnn.alert

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Virus disguises itself as MSN Messenger beta

by roddy32 Dec 27, 2005 6:15AM PST

By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: December 27, 2005, 2:01 PM PT

A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft's MSN Messenger has begun circulating, antivirus company F-Secure said on its blog Tuesday.

The virus, which F-Secure calls Virkel.F, comes as a file called BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE that can be downloaded from a Web site. Running the program installs not a new MSN Messenger beta, but rather a virus that sends download links to a computer user's MSN Messenger buddies. The virus falsely labels the link as "MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA."

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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6010163.html?tag=zdnn.alert

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