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New Sober variant infects millions of pcs and  becomes the years largest email worm outbreak
 

The Sober.Y worm was found on November 16th, 2005 and became widespread on November 21^st. Several millions of infected emails have been seen over the last hours. One of the reasons why this email worm seems to be so successful in spreading is that some of the messages it sends are fake warnings from FBI, CIA or from the German Bundeskriminalamt (BKA).  Such emails arrive with an attachment, which will infect the computer once opened.

For Example:

 
First Sober was found two years ago, in October 2003 and up to today, 24 variants of this virus have been written.  Some Sober variants have displayed neo-nazi messages, but all send German messages to German email addresses and English messages to other addresses.  F-Secure believes all variants of this virus have been written by the same individual, operating from somewhere in Germany. Unlike most of the other widespread viruses, Sober doesn't seem to have a clear financial motive behind it.

"The numbers we're now seeing with Sober.Y are just huge", comments Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure Corporation. "This is the largest email worm outbreak of the year - so far! "

F-Secure Anti-Virus can detect and remove the Sober.Y variant.

For more Technical information and info please visit:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/sober_y.shtml