Spam e-mails with racist messages flooded computers in Germany on Thursday.
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.
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.
A simple system administrator mistake is now capable of practically disabling e-mail systems worldwide, as recent incidents show.
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.
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.
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