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Sober.D Worm Spreads to North America

Mar 8, 2004 12:42AM PST

By Dennis Fisher
March 8, 2004

A new worm purporting to contain a patch to defend against MyDoom is attacking Windows machines throughout Europe and parts of North America.

Sober.D appeared Sunday and began spreading in Germany and the United Kingdom. The worm arrives in an e-mail message with a subject line of "Microsoft Alert: Please Read!" and carries a sending address with a Microsoft domain. The domain extension on the messages is typically from Germany, Israel, Switzerland or Austria.

More: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1544483,00.asp

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