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  • German hate-spam spread by Sober virus

    Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads hate messages in German and English, appeared over the weekend. Security firms are warning that they have received hundreds of thousands of e-mails generated by Sober.Q in its first 24 hours.

  • Sober worm goes into hibernation

    The Sober.P worm stopped spreading across the Internet on Tuesday after virus writers remotely silenced thousands of infected computers overnight, experts said on Friday.

  • 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.

  • New worm terminates antivirus apps: F-Secure

    A new worm variant that can terminate antivirus applications was discovered last Friday, prompting Internet security vendor F-Secure to issue a level two warning.

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  • German hate-spam spread by Sober virus

    Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads hate messages in German and English, appeared over the weekend. Security firms are warning that they have received hundreds of thousands of e-mails generated by Sober.Q in its first 24 hours.

  • 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?

  • Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author

    Microsoft's US$5 million fund for rewarding informants for leads on virus attacks has snagged its first success with the arrest of a man in Germany who has confessed to the release of the Sasser worm, the software giant said Saturday.

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