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  • Trojan horse scanner pitch is a sneaky worm

    An e-mail announcing a new Trojan horse scanner is itself an Internet worm that could flood e-mail servers with useless mail.

  • Sober worm makes a comeback

    Virus writers have resurrected the Sober worm with a new variant that is spreading quickly over the Internet, according to security experts on Tuesday afternoon.

  • Virus preys on World Cup ticket rush

    A variant of the Sober virus was discovered on Monday that attempts to fool people into executing its payload by pretending to be an e-mail from soccer world governing body FIFA offering free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

  • Virus delivers sobering reality check to victim's contacts

    Anti-virus companies are warning of a virulent new worm, Sober.C, which spreads by mailing itself to its victim's contacts.

  • Virus attacks fall

    The threat of infection by mass-mailed viruses is decreasing, according to reports, while tailored attacks are on the increase.

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  • Sober.d prevention and cure

    What appears to be yet another Microsoft security patch for the MyDoom worm is actually a computer virus. Sober.d (w32.sober.d@mm, also known as Roca.a) is the fourth member of the Sober mass-mailing virus family written in Visual Basic.

  • Virus writers elude Microsoft's bounty hunt

    A year on, and the company's US$1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust?

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