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October 28, 2003
Here's The Next Round
A new e-mail virus, called Sober, is starting to spread in Germany & the UK.
Many people are thought to be falling victim to it because one version poses as an update from anti-virus firms.
It also tries to hide by using many different subject lines in both German and English and by changing the name of the payload holding the virus.
Other subject lines used by Sober try to trick people into opening the message by looking like a warning that they are sending out e-mail messages infected with a virus.
Sober also re-uses subject lines seen in older viruses but again tries to fool users by adding comments that make messages bearing them look benign.
Should've called it the "Lon Chaney" virus.
Posted by Rita at October 28, 2003 08:07 PM