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  • Virus chaos thwarted by poor social engineering

    The latest variant of the Sober virus was released on Friday and has been spreading over the weekend but antivirus experts say the situation could have been much worse.

  • 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.

  • Worm masquerades as Microsoft patch

    The latest variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm masquerades as an official Microsoft patch for the MyDoom worm.

  • Latest Sober threatens e-mail gateways

    The latest Sober virus, which was first spotted over the weekend, has generated the vast majority of virus-laden e-mail traffic over the last 24 hours and could cause problems for corporate e-mail gateways, according to anti-virus firms.

  • Sober worm now 4 percent of all e-mail

    One in every 22 e-mails circulating the Internet on Wednesday contained the latest version of the Sober worm, according to latest statistics from a UK antivirus company.

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